On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 05:44:37PM +1100, Rick Welykochy wrote:
> 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
well, maybe u should wriet ur own. its a open standard, just download it
and see. maybe u aren't fully standards compliant, just test against ms
office and see. they wrote rtf, so they will have the authoritate version.
> 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)
Well maybe u shouldn't use the linux version as its crap! Use windows it
was written for it! honestly i dont understand if u want documentation
that is not man crap than use .doc!!!
I am honestly sick of the linux lamers at work, they want to use their
own crazt abiword or man crap. It cant generate proper .doc files, so
where is the point? I tried to make for them for application documentate
software, but i can't appease those freakes.
> It jus' ain't practical compared with ASCII and HTML.
Seem my previous stuff it you see Word exports html files!! Its damm
easy u just select if from the menu.
>
> Oh, somenoe please add WordPerfect and all the other WP
> wannabes to the list of prohibited standards.
It wasn't compliant to economise for scale. Sorry, but wheres the
point in using old crap software?! If it's 15 years old and designed
for really old computers then maybe upgrade. It surely is better.
Idiot.
Look, I've seen this before. If you want to be employable, than you
need to have the skills. Not knowing basics documentation stuff
like Word is surefire way to get passed up. Anyhow theres my advice.
Paul.
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