Hello All:
How about we go with if you want to distribute something to the list in pdf
also attach a copy in some common editable form. A little side note to
Cameron, Open Office is able to read and write doc and rtf formats.
-- Thanks, Edmund R. Kennedy Always work for the common good. 10777 Bendigo Cove San Diego, CA 92126-2510 USA I blog now and then at: <http://ekennedyx.blogspot.com/> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Arthur Keller" <voting@kellers.org> To: "Open Voting Consortium discussion list" <ovc-discuss@listman.sonic.net> Sent: Monday, May 02, 2005 1:39 PM Subject: Re: extract text from PDF, was Re: [OVC-discuss] Shamos Rebuttal,Draft 1 > At 12:09 PM -0700 5/2/05, Cameron L. Spitzer wrote: >>Please consider sharing documents in .sxw (Openoffice Writer) rather >>than .DOC (Microsoft Word). Similar functionality but the tools are >>free (as in speech) and the format is open, and comparable document >>files are usually much smaller. (A .sxw is actually >>a collection of XML and image files in .ZIP archive format.) > > I think RTF is best. It works with both open source systems and with > proprietary Microsoft Word. Some of us do use Word, and we can't read > .sxw, so that's not a better choice. Nonetheless, distributing in an > editable format is in general a good thing. > > Best regards, > Arthur > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Arthur M. Keller, Ph.D., 3881 Corina Way, Palo Alto, CA 94303-4507 > tel +1(650)424-0202, fax +1(650)424-0424 > _______________________________________________ > OVC discuss mailing lists > Send requests to subscribe or unsubscribe to > arthur@openvotingconsortium.org _______________________________________________ OVC discuss mailing lists Send requests to subscribe or unsubscribe to arthur@openvotingconsortium.org ================================================================== = The content of this message, with the exception of any external = quotations under fair use, are released to the Public Domain ==================================================================Received on Tue May 31 23:17:13 2005
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