[LINK] RTF / MS WORD / PDF / ?

[Danny Yee]

David Lochrin wrote:
>    I've acquired the job of producing a monthly newsletter which
>    is distributed partly by post and partly by email.  The email
>    distribution has been in MS WORD format until now, but I'm
>    considering changing to something which is more widely supported.

Well, I use plain text myself (for my monthly book review newsletter).

But why not use HTML?  If you're going to archive the newsletters
on a web site anyway, that will avoid an extra format.  And even if
you're not, it has the advantage of being supported my most modern
mail clients -- just make sure you include a plain text version as
well (or use HTML that "collapses" ok in text-only browsers) and
avoid browser-specific features.

If I get newsletters in Word or RTF they go straight into the trash
unless it's something very special -- I can't be bothered waiting
20 seconds for my word processor to start up just to read an email
message.  And PDFs are a real pain to read onscreen -- PDFs should
_only_ be used for documents people are expected to print.

Danny.
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