Re: [idn] Powerpoint

[Marc Blanchet <Marc.Blanchet@viagenie.qc.ca>]

I publish it in the format the authors provide it to me.

Marc.

ps1. btw, pdf is also a proprietary format, it just happens to have open 
source readers...
ps2. please don't start a war/flame/thread on file formats, this is not the 
right use of the bandwidth of the wg.

At/À 22:33 2001-03-22 +0000, Adam M. Costello you wrote/vous écriviez:
>It seems strange to me that the presentations of an IETF working group
>charged with developing an open standard are available only in a
>proprietary format (Powerpoint).
>
>Am I the only one on this list who doesn't have Powerpoint?
>
>Does Powerpoint allow presentations to be saved in an open format, like
>PDF?  (Or PostScript, though I have yet to see correct PostScript come
>out of any Microsoft application.  I heard that there's a printer driver
>option that allows you to "optimize for portability", but apparently
>very few people know about it.)
>
>AMC


Marc Blanchet
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tel: 418-656-9254
http://www.viagenie.qc.ca

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