On Mon, 5 Mar 2001, Crossfire wrote:
> Rick Welykochy was once rumoured to have said:
> > > 2. That software solutions will utilise true open standards,
> > > without proprietary extensions.
> > > (ASCII, HTML, RTF, PDF ... But NOT M$ Word)
> >
> > PDF: proprietary Abode format
>
> PDF is a published `standard' which is availible to the public.
>
> > RTF: proprietary MS format
>
> RTF is also a published `standard' which is availible to the public.
>
> Both of these formats when used, are used to the letter of the
> availible documentation. They are not normally proprietarily
> extended.
Agreed.
Unfortunately, the various implementations of RTF I have used are
at once abyssmal and do not interoperate, e.g. Star Office <--> Word 97
As well, I've had nothing but trouble with PDF's .... using acroread
on Linux as well as ghostview (which often pukes up PDF's)
It jus' ain't practical compared with ASCII and HTML.
Oh, somenoe please add WordPerfect and all the other WP
wannabes to the list of prohibited standards.
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