2008/5/15 web at work <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Go to Download.com - Search for PDF Readers and you will find many > readers that are much less in download size than Adobe 8.x. > > listed by date - last added first. > > Cool PDF Reader 2.0.0.99 - 901.6K > Brava Reader 3.0.0.6 - 15.21 MB > Foxit PDF Reader 2.3 build 2825 - 2.55MB (5 stars) > Free PDF Text Reader 1.1 - 3.12 MB (2-3 stars) > > Look on their site and you will find many things that you may want to have. > This is where I found Openoffice.org > for the first time, and I have been using it ever since. >
You could always send them a LiveCD of Slax along with the odf. Or pdf2exe. Or an ascii-art rendition of the document. Or a link to a standards-compliant crossbrowser webpage rendition of the document. Point is that there are an almost infinite number of ways to get something to display on the screen. Some are more suitable for a particular purpose than others. If you are sending a read-only document, then the most cross-platform friendly way is with a pdf. Even in a homogeneous Windows environment with everyone on the same version of MSO, a PDF is more comfortable to read than a .doc file. And if the document is read-write then everyone should be using the same major version of the same software. I don't know if MSO has point-versions, but different major versions mungle documents terribly, from experience. Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
