On 20/05/11 15:15, Liam Proven wrote:
On 20 May 2011 00:01, Daniel Case<danielcas...@googlemail.com> wrote:
Hi guys,
I'm a web designer and host, and I often get clients email with .doc,
.ppx and even .docx nowadays.... the question is, what should I be
doing about these people? I often send an email back asking them if
they would mind sending in an open format so I can open it without
problems, but I have had one person cancel a job over it (extreme, I
know, apparently I was wasting time..) so the question is how can I
educate these people, especially if they are willing to cancel a
project over it? (I make my income from this stuff!)
More or less what Popey said, actually, but I would like to make a
more detailed suggestion.
You don't need to actually spend any money to achieve this, or most of this.
What you do is:
<snips good, pragmatic ideas>
That's it. Using all freeware, you can now view the files in native
Microsoft applications, without a Windows licence or binaries or
anything.
OK, true, it is not all FOSS - not FOSS at all, in fact - but it's
legal, legit and works. I prefer to think of it as a small gesture of
defiance, myself.
I would suggest one further idea to that- add the Ghostscript PDF
printer driver so you can print any documents to a PDF file from the MS
viewers and use those PDFs with native apps in Ubuntu. Gimp,
Openoffice/LibreOffice (Writer and Draw with the PDF import extension)
and assorted command line utils can do things with PDFs which Windows
users would be envious of if they didn't think they were impossible.
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JimP
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