This might be a bit out of subject or opening a completly new can of worms but can't libreoffice save in html format? It can definatly save in pdf. Without installing cutepdf or whatever the schools are using.
-- Sent from my Nokia N900 Please do not send me word documents plain txt or pdf are prefered. ----- Original message ----- > On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 1:33 PM, J Fernyhough > <[email protected]>wrote: > > > > > I know I slate the state of teaching quite often, but it's not > > teachers who upload stuff onto websites - it's admin staff. Primary > > schools, for example, have a school secretary who normally has to do > > pretty much everything (and quite often they only work part time). > > Collect dinner money, enter register data, phone parents, send out > > letters - and one of the other tasks is to post newsletters onto the > > school website. When you think about school secretaries you don't > > think about people with technological interest, and they certainly > > aren't going to spend the time reformatting a newsletter in HTML > > format once they've made it in Word (or even worse, Publisher). Hence, > > save as a PDF, done. > > > I couldn't agree more. PDF if by far the easiest option for many schools > and probably the most widely viewable format. Whats more interesting is > the variety of tools schools are using to create the PDFs, our local > schools appear to all be using different tools, Adobe InDesign, > Microsoft Publisher, Serif Page Plus etc. At least they have the sense > to convert from these to a largely universal format. I couldn't imagine > or wouldn't expect a school to be converting a well laid out newsletter > produced in dedicated publishing software which is no doubt primarily > designed for print into an equally appealing HTML representation.
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