On Mon, 15 May 2006 15:35, Alan Cox wrote:
On Llu, 2006-05-15 at 10:19 -0400, Dominic Lachowicz wrote: > Stick to your "open formats" argument; it serves you better. ODT makes > no guarantees that the documents will look the same across renderers > or platforms. If the apps used exactly the same layout algorithms with > the same fonts, ligature handling, etc. then sure. But they don't. Yes but the embedded macros don't do things like print $1000 one day and $100000 the next
That's why the final agreed upon document is the one in PDF and/or PS formats that look exactly like the signed paper copies, not the "working draft" that gets passed to and fro and certainly won't look the same 3 years from now.
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