UNCLASSIFIED Some further reasons for not making Microsoft Word documents available via a web site are:
1. The format is trivially editable, so your document might be easily changed and repurposed in ways you would rather it wasn't and, 2. By default, Microsoft Word documents contain the content of every edit ever performed on the document (easily accessible with any hex editor) along with a rich pile of metadata that you may or may not want your audience to have access to. Microsoft acknowledge this and make available a tool to clean up Word documents: http://goo.gl/iRV3 There are no super easy solutions to the document format problem but scripting Openoffice to inhale Microsoft Word and exhale PDF, while far from ideal, is probably the best of the bad solutions available right now. -- MC UNCLASSIFIED ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [email protected] *******************************************************************
