Paul Jakma wrote:
> Just curious, but given how easy it is to generate PDF's, why is there
> such a need to be able to generate word docs?
>> Word has to be about the worst format out there. Rife with
> incompabilities, bloated, so hacked to bits that not even Microsoft
> know all the details (Caolan ended up /telling/ them how their formats
> worked, they referred to his writeups and Wv on some MS techdoc site
> iirc).
>> Really, *why* would anyone want to use Word?
>hmm,
because they do not know better
because some sales person sells it and does not give away software
because they dislike their bank balance
and so on and so forth!
P.
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