Arnold,
The way I read the OP's original question, a PDF would be a perfect
solution to this situation, so I don't see why you're finding fault with
the recommendation to use PDF.
Exporting to PDF is my usual recommendation to people with whom I work,
in situations where (a) the recipients do not need to edit the document;
and (b) the document is going to someone whom doesn't have OOo or you're
not sure if they do or not, or it's going to multiple recipients who
have various software.
In this particular case, he said "most readers that receive my
newsletter by email have only WORD (thus no MS Works) on their PCs".
Notice that he did not say that they ALL did. If he sent out the
newsletter as an MS Word document, then what happens with the people who
don't have MS Word?
Another advantage of PDF is that the formatting isn't going to get
messed up in the translation. You said that the user can test the
conversion to see whether the formatting comes through correctly or not
-- but with PDF there is no need to do that, it will be OK. (At least
I've never experienced it not being OK.)
As long as no editing of the document is needed, either viewing or
printing, then it's tough to beat PDF in my opinion.
arnold huzen wrote:
Why is it that every time a users asks this question that he is
advised to create a PDF-document from the OO-document. OO is capable
of sending a document in the corresponding MSFT-format. The users can
test the conversion from ODF to (in this case) DOC to see what it does
to the formatting of his text. If it looks the same then he can send
it to the readers. Although diskspace isn't so much an issue anymore,
anything that saves diskspace would be better than creating extra
documents that one never uses again.
Arnold Huzen
Jean Hollis Weber schreef:
Roger wrote:
What I am trying to do is...well allow me to explaion. I write our
street's Neighborhood Watch Newsletter and
since the only word document application I have is
Microsoft's Works' word processer that is what I use to
write the newsletter.
Most readers that receive my newsletter by email have
only WORD (thus no MS Works) on their PCs...
Can I copy a portion of my newsletter from a previous
months' newsletter and continue writing the newsletter
on Openoffice?
Yes.
If so can I tehn send the new Openoffice comument as
an attachment on emails to membership?
If your readers have only Word, you must first save your newsletter
in MSWord (.doc) format. Then you can email the .doc file to them and
they will be able to open it.
I would recommend, however, that you use OOo to export the file to
PDF and email that to your readers instead. Fortunately, OOo has PDF
export built in, so you do not need to buy a program like Adobe Acrobat!
--Jean
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