[LINK] Government gives thumbs down to PDF format

[Steven Clark]

On 06/12/10 09:41, Ivan Trundle wrote:
> On 06/12/2010, at 9:41 AM, Fernando Cassia wrote:
>
>> Reminds me of my old man, whom insists of sending me screenshots not
>> as JPEG (JPG) files or other graphic format, but rather does
>> Alt-PrintScreen, and then opens OpenOffice.org and pastes the bitmap
>> into an empty ODF document, and mails that to me.
> I share your pain, Fernando! 
>
> Last week, I received 12 Microsoft Word documents in an e-mail after requesting 12 jpeg images to be sent...
*sigh*

all that extra, unnecessary effort because they don't understand what
they're doing - just repeating what-worked-last-time.
> It's simply insufficient training or awareness of options: people I work with needed to be trained to NOT sent Word or Powerpoint attachments when plain text would suffice.
Seems we need ever more training, when a decent education would have
sufficed in most cases ...

-- 
Steven