Oh, I just can't pick a favorite! It's an overload of beautiful switches!
And if the switches weren't enough, they also gave us brilliant commentary on each one. *snicker* I had people at work giving me weird looks as I read this and giggled my way through.
Hi! I'm a long-time lurker/reader, but I wanted to comment. You asked how common is it that people need something other than PDF, and it really depends on the industry. For me, I'm an editor/writer, and I absolutely hate it when I receive press releases in anything except plain text or.doc formats. I have to move the copy into my own templates to edit for publication, and while I can sometimes copy text out of PDFs (depending on how it was saved) more often than not I either end up having to re-key the release or re-format it since PDF adds a hard return at the end of every line. I know my particular case doesn't apply to every situation, but there are professions like mine that depend on getting text documents that can be edited/changed/manipulated -- and my company doesn't support OpenOffice at all, nor am I allowed to install unapproved software on my work computer.
I'd love to see OpenOffice become a standard, since personally I like the idea, but for now the.doc format is about all a lot of people in professions like mine can accept and use, for better or for worse.
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Oh, I just can't pick a favorite! It's an overload of beautiful switches! And if the switches weren't enough, they also gave us brilliant commentary on each one. *snicker* I had people at work giving me weird looks as I read this and giggled my way through.
Hi! I'm a long-time lurker/reader, but I wanted to comment. You asked how common is it that people need something other than PDF, and it really depends on the industry. For me, I'm an editor/writer, and I absolutely hate it when I receive press releases in anything except plain text or .doc formats. I have to move the copy into my own templates to edit for publication, and while I can sometimes copy text out of PDFs (depending on how it was saved) more often than not I either end up having to re-key the release or re-format it since PDF adds a hard return at the end of every line. I know my particular case doesn't apply to every situation, but there are professions like mine that depend on getting text documents that can be edited/changed/manipulated -- and my company doesn't support OpenOffice at all, nor am I allowed to install unapproved software on my work computer.
I'd love to see OpenOffice become a standard, since personally I like the idea, but for now the .doc format is about all a lot of people in professions like mine can accept and use, for better or for worse.