jonas wrote:
hi!
On Tue, 20 Sep 2005 15:24:38 +0100
RW <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Because it's common for companies and recruitment agencies to specify
MS Word documents only. It's a de facto standard.
this may be a bit offtopic :) ...
but i think we agree that this situation is not good.
is there any 'official' standard for office documents like there is for
html, css, xml etc.?
Probably there are several "official" standards. If Microsoft ever
invades the EU and wins, then there will be one ;-)
More seriously:
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# file fooresume.doc
fooresume.doc: Rich Text Format data, version 1, ANSI
--- seems to indicate that the "American National Standards
Institute" has a standard for "Rich Text Format", which IIRC,
was invented by Microsoft many a long year ago.... see, for
example: http://latex2rtf.sourceforge.net/RTF-Spec-1.0.txt
if not, are there any efforts to create one?
if such a standard would be created by an international institution and
for example governments start/plan using it MS would be forced to adapt
it...
Hmm, I sort of doubt it. Not unless they actually *lost* a lawsuit.
And their "RTF" has already been "standardized", hrm?
Anyway....
FWIW, both TextMaker (www.softmaker.de) and AbiWord (and
I'm sure probably Star Office, Open Office, Koffice, etc.) make
a decent *.doc file that looks good in the versions of MS Word
I have around here. I don't know about the latest "Office this year"
though. A major complaint with MS it that *.doc is quite a moving
target ... and of course, they aren't publishing on sourceforge.net....
Kevin Kinsey
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