Preparing to convince to shift to non-propriety documents formats

[Boaz Rymland]

On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 11:57 AM, Nadav Har'El <nyh at 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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