Photographs are my stock in trade, not formatted textual documents. I send PDF documents when people want print-ready finished textual information, and plain text when they want to incorporate my work into their layouts, web sites, etc.
I've not found a word processor yet that had any difficulty reading a plain ASCII text document, Tom. It makes things much easier than sending .doc files that might or might not format properly. Godfrey On Oct 16, 2007, at 9:27 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Exactly. The written word is my stock in trade, and i've rarely > encountered a client who will accept anything other than a > word.doc. Of course some other applications can save docs in word > format, but I've found them to be unreliable. > Paul > -------------- Original message ---------------------- > From: "Tom C" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Guaranteed compatibility with your audience is where it's at in >> the business >> world though, and that means pretty much one standard. Today it's >> MS Word >> or Acrobat. >> >> Even though I have a dislike for MS Office 2007... and realize all MS >> products have some glaring deficiencies... >> >> >> Tom C. >> >>> From: Godfrey DiGiorgi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> Reply-To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <pdml@pdml.net> >>> To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <pdml@pdml.net> >>> Subject: Re: Next move from Pentax: anyone in the know (even >>> under NDA) ? >>> Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 08:56:03 -0700 >>> >>> I don't use either MS Word or WordPerfect. Never used either, >>> actually. I do most of my writing in a source code editor or in the >>> Mail editor. But then I only rarely need formatted text. vi, emacs, >>> pico, BBEdit, whatever.. >>> >>> When I do need formatted text, there are better options available >>> than those two barges. >>> >>> Godfrey >>> >>>> Tom C wrote: >>>> >>>>> It'll likely be a matter of attrition. What % of people here use >>>>> WordPerfect as opposed to MS Word? >>> >>> >>> -- >>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>> PDML@pdml.net >>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >>> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly >>> above and >>> follow the directions. >> >> >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> PDML@pdml.net >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above >> and follow >> the directions. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above > and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
