On 20 May 2011 16:48, Jim Price <[email protected]> wrote: > On 20/05/11 15:15, Liam Proven wrote: >> >> On 20 May 2011 00:01, Daniel Case<[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Hi guys, >>> >>> I'm a web designer and host, and I often get clients email with .doc, >>> .ppx and even .docx nowadays.... the question is, what should I be >>> doing about these people? I often send an email back asking them if >>> they would mind sending in an open format so I can open it without >>> problems, but I have had one person cancel a job over it (extreme, I >>> know, apparently I was wasting time..) so the question is how can I >>> educate these people, especially if they are willing to cancel a >>> project over it? (I make my income from this stuff!) >> >> More or less what Popey said, actually, but I would like to make a >> more detailed suggestion. >> >> You don't need to actually spend any money to achieve this, or most of >> this. >> >> What you do is: > > <snips good, pragmatic ideas>
Ta! :¬) >> That's it. Using all freeware, you can now view the files in native >> Microsoft applications, without a Windows licence or binaries or >> anything. >> >> OK, true, it is not all FOSS - not FOSS at all, in fact - but it's >> legal, legit and works. I prefer to think of it as a small gesture of >> defiance, myself. > > I would suggest one further idea to that- add the Ghostscript PDF printer > driver so you can print any documents to a PDF file from the MS viewers and > use those PDFs with native apps in Ubuntu. Gimp, Openoffice/LibreOffice > (Writer and Draw with the PDF import extension) and assorted command line > utils can do things with PDFs which Windows users would be envious of if > they didn't think they were impossible. Excellent idea. I didn't know about this - I use OpenOffice to create PDFs, and that does me, but that is a great suggestion. -- Liam Proven • Info & profile: http://www.google.com/profiles/lproven Email: [email protected] • GMail/GoogleTalk/Orkut: [email protected] Tel: +44 20-8685-0498 • Cell: +44 7939-087884 • Fax: + 44 870-9151419 AIM/Yahoo/Skype: liamproven • MSN: [email protected] • ICQ: 73187508 -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
