On Fri, 2005-30-09 at 12:52 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote:
Michael D. Setzer II wrote:
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On 29 Sep 2005 at 15:22, Mike McCarty wrote:
I started to reply to his message, but you said it soooo much better!
Why should I follow around after OO when I can just boot Windows in about a minute and a half, and be assured that the doc is ok? If OO knows there is a problem, then it should tell me. If there is no problem, it shouldn't frighten me. If it doesn't know, then why should I use it?
Mike
But I've seen the problem with documents being different if it is sent to someone also using MicroSoft, but having a different printer or fonts. It doesn't print the same. We use to make forms available in Word format, but they would print differently on different system, with different page breaks. PDF files worked with all printers. The only problem was that users couldn't edit the forms, but that wasn't a big issue in our case.
This is a different topic, seems to me. PDF is intended to solve a different problem, that of printing documents, not editing them.
Although most of the discussion has been about editing documents, the actual legislation is more about the storage, retrieval and display of documents not necessarily the editing of the documents. However a vendor that can create and edit documents as well as store, retrieve and display them will have a big advantage over those that can't.
Massachusetts did not adopt the OO format, the adopted the Open Document Format, which OO has also adopted support for also.