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Mon, 5 Aug 2002 14:47:43 +0100 |
Jim Halfpenny
Thank you for your email.
Thank you for your email. I understand that the forthcoming 'Framework for
local government' will be published on our website in HTML, with supporing
PDF and MS Word downloads. These are are the primary e-distribution formats
on our website.
We do use RTF, but we have found, particularly with illustrated material,
that the file sizes tend to be large and indeed RTF also has proprietary
issues that some users cannot handle.
For those who have asked for the document to be emailed directly to them -
then MS Word appears the preferred attachment. But of course our Guidelines
are for websites not for email systems.
Happy to discuss
Tom Adams
Office of the e-Envoy
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-----Original Message-----
From: address@hidden [mailto:address@hidden
Sent: 30 July 2002 10:49
To: address@hidden
Subject: MS Word Documents
Hi,
It appears you have chosen MS Word as your standard for distributable
documents.
Please would you consider using a format for such communications that does
not require that I have MS Word to read them. Not everyone has access to
MS Word, and this limits the potential audience to those that do.
Making the same information available in Rich Text Format (.rtf) or Portable
Document Format (.pdf) will increase the number of people who can access
this information. In the interest of all those concerned I would
respectfully
ask that you consider my request.
Thanks,
Jim Halfpenny
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