Hi :) Pdf is the best route imo. Note that the advantage LIbreOffice offers here is that it makes uncompressed Pdfs fairly easily, or at least with loss-less compression instead of making things a bit fuzzy.
You'll still probably need to use boring and over-used fonts such as Times New Roman, Arial or for that wacky, friendly look the infamous Comic Sans to fit in with whatever he/she is likely to have on his/her machine. Students love dull boring old stuff don't they? There is another neat trick if you are going to give him/her the files on a usb-stick and be able to click a couple of things yourself. The Portable Apps initiative http://portableapps.com/apps/office/libreoffice_portable/ It makes the programs/apps available without having to install them onto the Windows machine. Then when you unplug the usb-stick the program becomes unavailable again. It might be worth testing this before relying on it. I'd want the Pdf on the same Usb-stick and easy to quickly email in case her machine is tooo locked down. I'm not sure how to help with the fonts but maybe it's something to think about next time. Why does she/he "have to" read them in MS Office anyway? I'd bet she doesn't use MS Office to read Pdfs. At some point people decided it was ok to have 2 pieces of software to read documents. Why not a third? It is possible for her to have both MS Office for her own use and LibreOffice to handle documents from people who don't want to pay exorbitant fees for malware infested vendor lock-ins. Do all the students also 'have to' buy into MS Office because the staff are given it for free? Is it morally right for teachers to force their students to buy into something in order to help ensure the staff get it for free? (Sorry, just trying to give you arguments but they are unlikely to win you any fans!) Good luck and regards from Tom :) On 24 September 2014 00:12, "J. Van Brimmer" <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks Cley, > > I didn't think about the pdf route. That just may well work. I did try > sending an .odt to the secretary, same peoblem. When she opened it, some of > the lines were missing. I'll try pdfs next. > > Thanks! > > > > On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 3:45 PM, Cley Faye <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I don't know how well it transition to .doc files, but my approach to > make > > answer lines is the following: > > - create a new paragraph style (let's call it "Answer Zone") > > - change the style spacing so that there is no extra space before/after > the > > paragraph > > - change the style border to be a single line at the bottom, and disable > > the checkbox that merge the borders between paragraphs > > > > ...after typing this, I just checked, and that's roughly what the "---\r" > > route is doing. Damn. The issues seems to be that the "Merge with next > > paragraph" option either doesn't exist in .doc format, or isn't carried > > over correctly. And no more luck with docx. > > > > Some sort of solution for your issue could be to just send the odt > (recent > > version of MS Office can read them, YMMV), or directly send the PDF, > which > > is clearly the best option if the recipient of your document will not > have > > to modify it, only to view/print it. > > > > -- > > Cley Faye > > http://cleyfaye.net > > > > 2014-09-24 0:27 GMT+02:00 "J. Van Brimmer" <[email protected]>: > > > > > I'm using 4.3.1.2 on Xubuntu Linux. > > > > > > I am creating some lesson handouts for a class I'm going to be > teaching. > > I > > > have to email them to our secretary, who has to read them in MS Office > > for > > > printing. > > > > > > The documents are formatted in landscape mode. > > > > > > In the document I enter a short text line, press Enter, then I type in > > > three dashes, press Enter, and waula, I have a horizontal line for the > > > students to write their answers on. > > > Sometimes I continue pressing Enter to automatically create as many > > lines > > > as I need. > > > > > > This works fine as ling as I stay in .odt format. But if I save the > > > document in .doc format, and then open the .doc file in LibreOffice, > some > > > of the horizontal lines are missing. I have tried everything I can > think > > > of, but I can't get all of the lines to "stick" from .odt to .doc > format. > > > > > > I have read the "Help" page here: > > > https://help.libreoffice.org/Common/Drawing_Lines_in_Text > > > . > > > But those tips don't work either. > > > > > > I am being forced to work in Winbroke using BS Word. 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