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Re: Word/OpenDoc labels download

From Kevin Powick <nospam@spamless.com>
Newsgroups comp.databases.pick
Subject Re: Word/OpenDoc labels download
Date 2011-02-07 10:56 -0500
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On 2011-02-07 08:11:04 -0500, dawn <dawnwolthuis@gmail.com> said:

> An html set of labels also has the same issue that pdf's have in that
> if the user wants to add or change anything with the label, then we
> have to support those features up front too, rather than the user able
> to make adjustments in Word.

Why have a dependency on MS Word?  Will every user have it?  Why not 
use RTF?  It's a lot lighter, pretty much a cross-platform standard.  
MS Word will open it, but you don't need MS Word because every copy of 
Windows has the WordPad RTF editor.  Mac comes with TextEdit, and I'm 
sure *nix must have a default RTF editor as well.

For something as simple as labels, I think RTF would be a lot easier to 
work with.

--
Kevin Powick

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Re: Word/OpenDoc labels download Kevin Powick <nospam@spamless.com> - 2011-02-07 10:56 -0500
  Re: Word/OpenDoc labels download dawn <dawnwolthuis@gmail.com> - 2011-02-07 12:33 -0800
  Re: Word/OpenDoc labels download dawn <dawnwolthuis@gmail.com> - 2011-02-07 11:44 -0800
  Re: Word/OpenDoc labels download Scott Ballinger <scott.ballinger@gmail.com> - 2011-02-07 09:16 -0800
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