On 31/10/2004, at 10:54 AM, Peter Sealy wrote:
This request is the opposite to the more common one of how to open
received mail attachments.
I need to send an attachment to an email so it can be opened and read
by PC-using recipients. The attachment will be a kind of an
information sheet and ideally will have more than one font size and
bold typing as well as regular.
Is there any way I can set up the format using TextEdit [or Tex-Edit
Plus] so the PC-ers can read it? I do not have Word of any description
or any other word-processing app?
TextEdit in Panther can save (and open) in Word format. For what you
need, it will serve very well. If you don't have Panther, TextEDit can
still save as RTF which pretty much any modern word processor can read.
RTF preserves text and paragraph formatting.
You can also use the "Save as PDF option" from the Print dialog, but
there's no guarantee that the recipient will have Acrobat Reader
installed. This is not uncommon with Windows machines.
If the answer is no, then if I just write a standard letter format
using TextEdit and add .doc at the end of the title of the document
does that ensure that at least PC-users can open it and with the
original paragraph set out and formatting in place.
No. The PC will just try to open it as a Word file and fail. Not only
that, the file will actually have a Word icon and confuse the heck out
of the recipient into the bargain.
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Peter Hinchliffe Apwin Computer Services
FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer
Perth, Western Australia
Phone (618) 9332 6482 Fax (618) 9332 0913
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Mac because I prefer it -- Windows because I have to.
