Jerry Clancy wrote:
He uses AGaramond for the logo, a non-std. font, so that may normally look odd. In general the conversion isn't bad but a lot of extra spacing seems to be added.
Yes, especially in the first two paragraphs in the main column where the bullets are far too large. This area is mainly what is pushing the lower paragraphs down the page. The left column isn’t bad at all in OOo on my system.
Actually, I am impressed with what does get converted but this spacing issue is apparent in almost any Word file I import (and I set off all the "add space" options in Writer) and were it solved the document would render almost perfectly.
Of course I imagine that now the emphasis among OOo programmers is on attempting to deal with the MS Office 2007 files, which I presume have a documented structure. (Whether Microsoft actually works to that structure is perhaps another matter.)
But basically, the newsletter seems to me to come out about as well as I would expect one word processor’s document to come when converted to another word processor.
And it certainly does not help that he seems to have no knowledge at all about styles, just sticking in blank paragraph for spaces. He uses Word like a typewriter. Doesn’t even bother with proper quotation marks.
I also very much wonder why your friend would not translate this newsletter to PDF or even HTML. Publishing anything in a format only perfectly viewable in a single product should obviously be a very bad idea.
But I believe I've noticed a trend for Ecologically concerned people on the web to be almost oblivious to the fact that anything exists for putting out data except for MS Word.
So, again, I suggest you download the free MS Word viewer. Jim Allan --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
