[thelist] Re: Rich Text vs. Doc files (was Do we still need to say Download Acrobat Reader?)

Tim Luoma luomat at peak.org
Wed Jul 17 21:47:00 CDT 2002


Austin Govella wrote:
> Are *.rtf files more accessible than *.doc files? Would it be better to
> save Word files as *.rtf or do other word processors choke on them?

Slightly.

You'd be better off with PDF of course.

MS' version of RTF isn't compliant (why do they insist on co-opting
every standard to their own usage?)

At that point you might as well make it ASCII ;-)

TjL







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