On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 11:57 AM, Nadav Har'El <n...@math.technion.ac.il>wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 05, 2012, Boaz Rymland wrote about "Re: Preparing to convince > to shift to non-propriety documents formats": > > I bet it cannot read my teacher's document! > > Before you go and complain about some supposed facts, I think you should > verify that they are really correct facts. Is OpenOffice *really* unable > to read these files (usually it can)? Is Android really not able to read > it? If you import this document into Google Docs (or equivalently, get it > by mail to gmail), can't you preview it? > of course the whole reason to this thread and me contacting the principal is the fsck'ed up document. The document appears badly in LibreOffice and Google docs (imported). I verified this since sept. 1st till now, on a weekly basis. Yes, OO does read the document and sort of presents the data within, including ok hebrew but I don't want and deserve to do guess work or work harder to try to read a basic document I need to get. I want it to be perfectly accessible to me, at least it is for M$ Office users. > > a table full of oversized > > text, but mostly - toner/ink eating, useless, stupid^H^H^H^H^H images > that > > never, and I mean never, really align in the needed cells but rather > appear > > somewhere else in the document. That's true also on a recent M$ Word as > > well! > > People doing ugly formatting and wasting ink isn't specific to Microsoft > Word :( Even if you get them to send you ODF or PDF, they can still send > you these ugly pieces of crap :( > Right :-) I do think that there's a valid point here nevertheless - saving ink on rather useless images, even if sometimes appropriate, is a good practice. Kids should be taught the same as well. Boaz.
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