[geeks] MS good?!?

[Chris Hedemark]

On Mon, 2002-07-08 at 16:02, Joshua D Boyd wrote:

> Besides, off all those formats, word give you the least control over
> what your document will look like on the HR computer screen or when
> printed on the HR printer.  A number of years ago (five I think) I had
> the job of putting together a newletter in MS Publisher, then emailing
> it to the printer, and this was a major hassle since things never
> looked the same at the printer.  Most particularly, the text paginated 
> differently and the ends of articles would get lost.  But graphics
> coming out differently was also a problem.

Often this can be attributed to the recipient having different fonts
from the author.

It's buried somewhere, but I seem to remember an option to save fonts
with the document.  Sure it makes the document bigger & slower to load,
but it is more likely to appear as intended on the other end.

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