At 04:49 02/10/2011 -0700, Pedro Noname wrote:
What [someone was] saying is that when you press the Save button in
a doc file (and you are not informed of this problem when you just
Save it, only on Save As) there is a conversion that causes the
document NOT to be saved as you are seeing it on-screen but could be
something else completely different...
[...]
But when you are working within the same format, you assume that
what is on screen is what is being saved!
It should clear that this cannot be true. Much of the structure of a
word processor document is not directly visible on the editing
screen. (Consider, just as an example, paragraph breaks, line
breaks, and line ends that occur dynamically as text flows within a
passage - which all appear the same.) The saved document file
contains a definition of the document, and what you see on the
editing screen is merely a rendering - accurate or otherwise - of
that definition. Even the same application software may render the
document differently on different platforms, with different but
identically named fonts or even substituted fonts, with different
printers having different minimum margins, and so on. The
differences between renderings by a different version of the same
software or by different software will generally be greater.
It is an understandable and convenient idea that your correspondents
will automatically see what you see when they open your word
processor document files, but that is not so. But you need
distribute such files only if you are co-operating with your
correspondents in editing the material. In the majority of cases,
recipients need only to display, read, and possibly print your work,
so PDF documents are a better bet. As its name suggests, this format
is designed to be more portable.
Brian Barker
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