I think it's fair to say that the less people know about computing the less they are likely to know about which formats are portable and which are not. I had to use the utility "strings" to extract the text from a quite lengthy document for which my previous distro had no browser.
Then, with a couple of emacs macros I was able to format the resulting rivers of text and purge some unnecessary junk that remained. It was not something I'd want to repeat. And, yes, it is only people I correspond with regularly who are likely to respond to requests for ".pdf" and even with them I tend to make it a mantra. Obviously, that only works if you don't have to deal with many other correspondents. Even the Theoretical Linguistics Community has abandoned their "LaTeX only" policy and included Windows and, as academic communities go, is pretty small and tight. Malcolm Johnston. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
