Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Tim Hill Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn.misc Subject: Re: The good, the bad and the RO 5.18! Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 15:46:02 +0000 (GMT) Organization: timil.com Lines: 36 Message-ID: <526f5ba900tim@invalid.org.uk> References: <8e12bd6952.c.n.l.f@virgin.net> <5269d59248steve@revi11.plus.com> <526baffc2bnews*@Torrens.org.uk> <526dd4ed19bbailey@argonet.co.uk> <526e2f48fbbbailey@argonet.co.uk> <83bd416e52.graham@durain.demon.co.uk> <8040476e52.graham@durain.demon.co.uk> <9s13ueF8i8U1@mid.individual.net> <3960576e52.dougjwebb@doug.j.webb.btinternet.com> <0d285f6e52.dougjwebb@doug.j.webb.btinternet.com> <526e727ea6see.sig@walkingingermany.invalid> <526e7a41ceron.briscoe@blueyonder.co.uk> <526ebb0cbdsee.sig@walkingingermany.invalid> <526ee73e61ron.briscoe@blueyonder.co.uk> <526ef043e8see.sig@walkingingermany.invalid> <526ef63b71ron.briscoe@blueyonder.co.uk> <526f332bfasee.sig@walkingingermany.invalid> NNTP-Posting-Host: GqAcIUbqh27oTTI3Dt5hJw.user.speranza.aioe.org X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Pluto/3.04c (RISC-OS/5.16) NewsHound/v1.50-32 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.acorn.misc:4225 In article <526f332bfasee.sig@walkingingermany.invalid>, Russell Hafter News wrote: > In article <526ef63b71ron.briscoe@blueyonder.co.uk>, Ron > Briscoe wrote: > > In article <526ef043e8see.sig@walkingingermany.invalid>, > > Russell Hafter News > > wrote: > > [Snip.] > > > Documents that are given to customers are also all > > > Easiwriter documents, and so are all my order forms. > > > Some admin documents are done in Draw. > > Are these printouts of EasiWriter documents > Of course they are printouts. > When you go into a hotel you hbd over a paper voucher, not > show something on a computer screen. Of course the 'modern' way to do it - on the hotel chain websites and plane tickets - is to email a pdf file to a customer and tell them to print it themselves and take the printout with them. Showing a barcode on the screen of a mobile phone has been a standard for rail tickets since 2008. My local operator - Chiltern Railways - even has several apps for that. -- Tim Hill of timil.com . . . * supports TFT & shares in cheaper ethical telecoms http://tjrh.eu/phone * has a genuine & spam-proof address for Usenet http://www.invalid.org.uk/ * accepts incoming email: substitute postmaster@ for tim@ ... "To thine own self be true; and it must follow, as the night the day, thou can'st not then be false to any man" Hamlet, Act i, Sc.3