Re: Re: Adding a text fiile printer (or any printer) in OpenOffice

On Wed, 2007-05-30 at 00:06 +0000, Duncan wrote:
> > Well neither the html nor plain text versions of
the document, as saved
> > by OpenOffice, preserved the formatting I want, so
no-go there.  If I
> > can't get the document into properly formatted
plain text, I think I'll
> > stick with pdf, odt and/or ps, all of which
preserve the formatting.
> 
> PDF is what I'd do, if plain text wasn't viable.  It's
widely used and 
> has an open spec.  A lot of government and commercial
stuff is PDF, so I 
> don't think the need to read it anyway is going
anywhere for awhile.

My thinking exactly  
Postscript is also very widely supported.  It's
the meta-format for many printers these days.  I'd really
love to see ODF
become as popular, but it hasn't happened yet.

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