<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 11:57 AM, Nadav Har'El <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nyh@math.technion.ac.il">nyh@math.technion.ac.il</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
On Sun, Feb 05, <a href="tel:2012" value="+9722012">2012</a>, Boaz Rymland wrote about "Re: Preparing to convince to shift to non-propriety documents formats":<br>
<div class="im">> I bet it cannot read my teacher's document!<br>
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</div>Before you go and complain about some supposed facts, I think you should<br>
verify that they are really correct facts. Is OpenOffice *really* unable<br>
to read these files (usually it can)? Is Android really not able to read<br>
it? If you import this document into Google Docs (or equivalently, get it<br>
by mail to gmail), can't you preview it?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>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.</div>
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<div class="im"><br>
> a table full of oversized<br>
> text, but mostly - toner/ink eating, useless, stupid^H^H^H^H^H images that<br>
> never, and I mean never, really align in the needed cells but rather appear<br>
> somewhere else in the document. That's true also on a recent M$ Word as<br>
> well!<br>
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</div>People doing ugly formatting and wasting ink isn't specific to Microsoft<br>
Word :( Even if you get them to send you ODF or PDF, they can still send<br>
you these ugly pieces of crap :(<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Right :-)</div><div>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.</div>
<div> </div><div>Boaz.</div></div></div>