On Sun, 24 Apr 2011 18:28:29 +0100, Lisi wrote: > On Sunday 24 April 2011 16:38:23 Camaleón wrote: >> On Sun, 24 Apr 2011 08:27:33 -0800, peasthope wrote: >> > MS invented docx. Now when John Doe wants to say "Summer Vacation >> > Planning Meeting. Bring your coffee mug to the boardroom at 3:00." >> > he can send an archive containing a hierarchy of a dozen or so files. >> > Several kB in total. >> >> No, indeed. To avoid that tell (instruct) "Mr. Doe" to deliver a PDF >> document instead and problem solved ;-) > > Why not .txt? Even simpler, will retain all the information and be > readable with almost anything.
How about images and text formatting? With plain text files you miss them (html should be a nice alternative but again, images have to be enclosed apart) ;-) PDF being an ISO standard is a very good alternative for handling documents that do not need to be edited but viewed and it features very good compression methods for images. > I suppose at a pinch .rtf, but I don't > see that any formatting is necessary for that information. RTF has a big drawback: it generates very big documents not suitable for sending them attached to an e-mail ;-( Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2011.04.24.17.34...@gmail.com