Dragon wrote:
Also, Microsoft distributes free viewers for each of the major office formats (word, excel, pp, perhaps publisher) that you can use if you just want to read a file in .doc format. However my best suggestion is to take Dragon's advice. Open office is quite sufficient for all the msoffice opening/editing/saving I've had to do. I actually used it to recover my resume from word 97 format, update and make some changes, and save it in a word 2003 format without a blink, and it came out quite well (must have, I got the job and I'm writing from there now :-)Gregor Schneider wrote:On 11/6/07, Ryan Barnett <<mailto:Ryan.Barnett@xxxxxxxxxx>Ryan.Barnett@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:> Why not a URL where we can view it? [Ryan Barnett] Here you go -<http://apachebenchmark.sourceforge.net/CIS_Apache_Benchmark_v2.1.doc>http://apachebenchmark.sourceforge.net/CIS_Apache_Benchmark_v2.1.docehem - great, however, there's no such thing like ms word on my machine - hope it's not too much asking for a pdf-version... *cough*---------------- End original message. ---------------------Nor do you need it. Open Office can handle that sort of file too, and it is both free and open source, it also runs on every major OS. It works quite nicely for me using it at home to work on all sorts of MS format documents generated at work in MS applications.http://www.openoffice.org/Which is not to say that your comment about providing a document in PDF is without merit.Dragon ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Venimus, Saltavimus, Bibimus (et naribus canium capti sumus) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ---------------------------------------------------------------------The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project.See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Anyway, you're right. We shouldn't have to rely on and have proprietary formats forced on us at every turn, but on the other hand pdf is just another proprietary format that somebody won't want to use. Unfortunately without an open document format, there's always going to be somebody saying "Could you give us a Lotus file, or perhaps a WordPerfect 2.0 compatible file?".
I guess what I'm trying to say is, get Open Office, get an open-source/non-adobe pdf reader, then download the gimp, blender, and ubuntu if at all possible :-)
Or we could just get a pdf ;-) --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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