From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 18 6:20:16 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ness.aae.uiuc.edu (ness.aae.uiuc.edu [128.174.132.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D772937B404 for ; Mon, 18 Feb 2002 06:20:10 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dmmcf@localhost) by ness.aae.uiuc.edu (8.11.4/8.11.4) id g1IEQhq23210; Mon, 18 Feb 2002 08:26:43 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dmmcf@uiuc.edu) X-Authentication-Warning: ness.aae.uiuc.edu: dmmcf set sender to dmmcf@uiuc.edu using -f To: Don Tyson Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Advice sought re MS Office compatibility References: From: dmmcf@uiuc.edu (D. Michael McFarland) Date: 18 Feb 2002 08:26:42 -0600 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <867kpalvbx.fsf@ness.aae.uiuc.edu> Lines: 22 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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 Don Tyson writes: > 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. I've tried that, and in fact it's my preferred way of interacting with coauthors who are making only trivial changes ("print it out, scribble on it and fax it back"). But we're all engineers in academia--control freaks to a man, and everyone wants to get his hands on the files. I'm coming to think my best bet is to be so productive that they never catch up :-), which is probably what I should be doing anyway. Thank you for your reply. I posted my original message mostly to let off some steam, and it's good to know I'm not alone. Cheers, Michael To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message