<html><head></head><body>I wouldn't say Linux as it confused people (worked in university, don't think that it would work at school). But you can to with tablet (iPad/android). Those cost money to open word and still have a lot of issues if they do. PDF works but is not editable. Not sure if there is an editable solution though that is portable enough. Maybe Google docs, of it's not too geeky.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">Boaz Rymland <boaz.rymland@gmail.com> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div dir="ltr"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="style">Hi all,<div><br /></div><div>I'm about to meet my daughter's school principal on the subject of the formats of documents the school spreads around routinely, like the weekly schedule. In short - they are using .DOC MS Word format and I don't like it as I cannot cleanly open those documents on my computer (which runs Ubuntu).</div>
<div><br /></div><div>Although I'm quite old in the Linux world and probably heard over the years most of them - still I prefer having a refreshment of all the arguments in favor of moving to more open or at least affordable (e.g. PDF) document formats.</div>
<div><br /></div><div>Any pointers/text will be appreciated.</div><div><br /></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Boaz.</div></span></div>
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