2007/5/25, Richard Detwiler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Eric Westhagen wrote:
> Dear Open Office Support:
>
> I would expect this to be the number one question. How can I compose a
> business letter in open office and then send and have my recipient read
> the "formatted" text?
>
> I use both Netscape 4.7 and I use the Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird.
> I must assume that my "recipient" would use Microsoft's browser and mail
> client.
>
> I have "saved" my document from open office in all the file formats
> available and either the spacing is exagerated, or doubled, or their are
> no carriage returns. . . .
>
> I can export in Word or PDF which my recipient probably uses---but I
> cannot be sure if they can read such a letter. Your regular HTML loses
> the format and comes with strange exaggerations and the XHTML cannot be
> read by Mozilla. I spent three hours in hopes of finding a "Word to
> HTML" converter. There was only one and that crashed and had to be
> removed. But there were a hundred such converters for forty to
> one-hundred dollars. You can see others have the same problem.
>
> The document is mirrored correctly in my "printer setup viewing", but
> then how to convert a Microsoft *.prn file to HTML? Obviously I can
> print the Open Office doc and THEN SCAN IT and send a JPEG?
>
> Please tell me specifically----"How to send as prepared and formatted in
> OO, a letter in HTML as accepted by Mozilla which has my standard
> preformatted spacing---72pts on each side, top--72pts, bottom--80,
> single spaced, block with double spaces only at paragraphs???"
>
> Sincerely,
> Eric Westhagen
>
>
>
This doesn't answer your specific question, but I don't understand why
sending it as a pdf file wouldn't work. It seems like essentially every
computer has a pdf reader, like Adobe Acrobat Reader, and if they don't,
it's an easy, free download.
Whenever I'm sending something to people, and I don't know what software
they have, I send it as a pdf, and I've never had a problem.
Hello
I agree with Richard that sending your letter in PDF is the best
option. If you doubt whether it will appear on the receuver's screen
as you intend it to, you can inbed the fonts that are used, just in
case they're not available at the other end.
I would say that, typically, HTML does _not_ assure a truthful
representation of your letter at the other side, as it leaves much to
the receiving browser to decide. It's well known that particularly the
IE browser speaks some dialect of HTML and makes short shrift of some
vital HTML and CSS rules of the W3C group.
Conversion between different file formats is never 100% fool proof,
depends on the availability and identity between styles etc.
So: PDF is the answer!
HTH
--
Guy
using dutch OOo 2.2 RC 4 on a iMac Intel DualCore Tiger
and dutch OOo 2.2 RC 4 on a G4 PPC Powerbook Tiger
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