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[James P. Kinney III]

On Fri, 2007-09-28 at 11:38 -0400, Geoffrey wrote:
> James Sumners wrote:
> > I prefer OpenOffice to Office as well. But when you save a document as
> > a Word document from within Writer, formatting doesn't always hold
> > true. When it comes to my grades, I don't try and force the issue.
> > Office works. I'm sure your son has to print everything he writes so
> > he can turn in a hard copy. That isn't always the case at the
> > university level. Sometimes you have to submit your work
> > electronically, and the professor will be using Office to view it.
> 
> And if you happen to use a font the instructor doesn't have, there goes 
> your formatting as well.
> 
Maybe I'm just the prick on this stuff but...

Electronic format document transfer that has the requirement of intact
format MUST be sent in PDF. 

Zip.

No other alternative is possible.

If student has a new version of M$ Orifice and teacher has an older
version (quite common situation), the document won't work for the
teacher.

Saving ODT as a M$ .doc does an OK job but it's not perfect. The
formatting _will_ change because the M$ format (I use the term only
generically here) is so convoluted that even they can't always make it
work right.

So any student who is REQUIRED to submit electronically should ALWAYS
send a PDF and no other format. Even if the teacher is using
OpenOffice.org, they should send PDF. The only time PDF should not be
sent is during collaboration time before the document is in final form
and the teacher is going to edit things.

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> Until later, Geoffrey
> 
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James P. Kinney III          
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