"Brian Lunergan" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> --- On Mon, 7/27/09, Ian <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> From: Ian <[email protected]>
>> Subject: [users]  File Formats
>> To: [email protected]
>> Received: Monday, July 27, 2009, 12:57 PM
>> http://documentation.openoffice.org/manuals/userguide3/index.html
>>
>> Rhetorical Question: Why are the above documents in
>> .pdf format as opposed to the OOwriter format?
>>
>> It would be nice to be able to cut and paste certain
>> sections so that I could refer to them.
>>
>> Ian
>>
>
> Ian:
>
> Can't speak for those who produced the site, but I would personally
> speculate on two possibilities.
>
> 1) Accommodating those who may want to investigate the documentation
> but don't yet have software such as Open Office in place that can
> handle ODF.
>
> 2) It secures the content against tampering to a greater degree than
> ODF. Sort of a look but don't touch format.
>
> Just thinking out loud...
>
> Brian Lunergan
> Nepean, Ontario
> Canada
>
>
>
>
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That's OK; he said it was rhetorical, after all. <g>  I wonder if he 
knows that means an answer isn't expected?




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