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Re: :-O
by anon on Wednesday 27/Aug/2003, @16:06

> And the printer example is even dumber. Hasn't he heard of PDF. Which also means that you don' have to ask somebody to send you a "weirdo-0.00001%marketshare.xxx format???" file, you need to ask them to please send you a PDF.

Most windows users don't know how to make pdf's. They are pretty uncommon in the buisness world compared to .doc's. Having MS Office compatability is *wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyy* more important for most users of koffice than having good pdf compatability, although it'd be nice to have both :-)!

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Re: :-O
by James Richard Tyrer on Wednesday 27/Aug/2003, @22:52

> Most windows users don't know how to make PDFs

I would go farther than that, I would say that most Windows users don't know what a file format is. If they did, they would have probably sent you an RTF file.

But, that doesn't mean that products should be designed based on user stupidity. It is my belief that Linux should not be dumbed down to accomodate stupid users because such users have no reason to switch to Linux.

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by anon on Thursday 28/Aug/2003, @06:46

> It is my belief that Linux should not be dumbed down to accomodate stupid users because such users have no reason to switch to Linux.

Ok, but the world doesn't work like that. I'd get fired if I refused to take MS Office formats and work with them, and demanded non-company-standard file formats. Remember that Linux users represent less than 1 or 2 percent of the desktop.

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by James Richard Tyrer on Thursday 28/Aug/2003, @14:36

I think that you missed the point.

I presume that you mean that at work you use MS Office as your office suite. This is not the issue since if your company used WordPerfect Office, you would be using WPO file formats. If you used Foo-Bar Office, you would be using FBO file formats, etc.

The question is not about documents you are working on, it is about *completed* documents. Specifically about the bad habit of sending people completed documents in DOC files rather than RTF files (as I think MS originally intended) or converting to PDFs.

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