Dotan Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 21/01/2008, James Knott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> John Shelton wrote: >>> Isn't Open Office reportedly able to open .doc documents? > > Not the complex, Hebrew language ones they were sending. > >> It normally does, other than the new .DOCX format from Office 2007. >> Then again, newsletters etc., should be send as PDF, not Word or >> OpenOffice documents. > > That is what I told them. > >> Oh I forgot, you can't generate a PDF with Word, >> unless you get some 3rd party software. > > I did not know that. Let them save the file as plain text, so far as I > care, so long as I can read it. > > Dotan Cohen > > http://what-is-what.com > http://gibberish.co.il > ?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-? > > A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. > Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
If the issue is just readability, you should be able to get a reader from the MS site. BTW I just tried it, and I also opened a doc with OOo with a Hebrew font, too. Maybe there's more to it? Twayne --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
