From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 18 5:32:49 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from scaup.prod.itd.earthlink.net (scaup.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94A8437B402 for ; Mon, 18 Feb 2002 05:32:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from 1cust83.tnt25.tco2.da.uu.net ([67.200.184.83] helo=orange.home) by scaup.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16cnuP-0004fh-00; Mon, 18 Feb 2002 05:32:46 -0800 From: Don Tyson To: dmmcf@uiuc.edu (D. Michael McFarland) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Advice sought re MS Office compatibility In-Reply-To: Message from dmmcf@uiuc.edu (D. Michael McFarland) of "17 Feb 2002 20:04:29 CST." <86eljjlf4i.fsf@ness.aae.uiuc.edu> Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 08:32:44 -0500 Message-Id: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Hello All, > > I find it's becoming increasingly important for me to collaborate, at > a .doc- and .ppt-file level, with colleagues who use MS Word and > PowerPoint on Macs and PCs. [snipped] > to add that I write everything I can in TeX. [snipped] > > Best regards, > Michael Others on this list have suggested formatting in PDF using dvipdfm or ps2pdf or some other utility. Presumably that would work for presenting the document, but probably not if you need to pass it back and forth editing or changing, unless you send a plain text file with it. Don Tyson To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message