On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 05:03:05PM -0500, paul stenquist wrote: > > On Nov 14, 2010, at 3:39 PM, John Francis wrote: > > > On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 08:10:29PM -0000, Bob W wrote: > >> > >>> Odd. I use Word all day, every day. Save all manuscripts as docs and have > >>> never had a problem. > >> > >> I think it can get its panties stuck up its crack if the document template > >> gets messed up. I've been using it day in, day out for donkeys' years and > >> in > >> most situations it seems to be ok if you can keep things simple. At the > >> place I'm working now, though, they have it set up so that users can't set > >> up and use their own default template and I find that the file sizes > >> inflate > >> really quickly for some reason which I haven't discovered yet. > > > > That's usually because history versioning is turned on. Turn it off and > > document sizes revert to something a lot more reasonable. > > > > That said, however: a .doc file (or a .pdf) is *not* the way to store plain > > text, which is a concept that I struggle to get across to some people. I > > don't > > want a 2MB binary email attachment that I have to open in an external > > program, > > and I don't want a .doc file attached as a "comment" in a project tracker. > > Then you're different than all the publishers out there. I have never > encountered a magazine or newspaper that didn't want .doc files. They're the > industry standard. Yes, they may suck, but they're the industry standard. > Paul
I'm not talking about submissions to a print shop; I'm talking about email, postings to discussion groups, and comments added to a project tracking system. Word documents are most emphatically *not* the standard there; in fact they are not allowed as the only representation in RFC-compliant email, and many discussion groups (such as the PDML) don't allow them either. -- 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.
