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[El Hermoso Dormiendo]

Same here - high praise for the person who thought to use .rtf 
instead of a more close, proprietary format!

As far as OpenOffice - 

http://www.openoffice.org

Quite nice, and actually has a couple of features
that Microsoft(tm) Office(tm) doesn't even have - export
to .pdf (directly, without paying for permission to run
extra software) and exporting to Macromedia's "Flash" format
(no more posting "PowerPoint(tm)" bloated files on the 'net!  Hooray!)

Even better - it's LEGALLY free, and available on multiple
platforms.  (The Mac OS X version is a bit behind the other
versions due to the limited number of programmer's who've shown up
to work on the porting - kind of surprised Apple corporation
hasn't contributed some development resources to bring it up
to speed, given the amount of Microsoft(tm) software that is
now "abandonware" on the Mac...)  And it does a pretty
good job of handling Microsoft(tm) file formats, too.
Download links are available at the site.  If you're an EXTREME nerd, 
you can even get the source code and compile it up yourself for 
maximum optimization for your computer...

(If you need/want a 'commercial' version, Sun sells it as "StarOffice", 
and includes some proprietary add-ons, including clip-art and, I'm
told, import capability for WordPerfect(tm) format and a few others.  And
it's still cheaper than illegally pretending to be a "Student or Teacher" to
get a discounted version of Microsoft(tm) Office(tm) 2003(tm)...)

I don't know about your printer and .pdf's, though - what kind is it?
It MIGHT be possible to get an alternate printer driver that could
adjust the output to fit the printer memory (or adjust obscure settings
of the existing driver to do so)...

signed,
El Hermoso Dormiendo, penguinista

On Tuesday 20 January 2004 09:35 am, lilinah at earthlink.net wrote:
> It was sent to me in rtf (Rich Text Format). That was GREAT!!!
> Readable by any word processing program, as far as i know, and
> eminently printable.
>
> I'm so tired of texts, just plain old texts, in all manner of
> MicroSoft formats that none of my word processing programs can read
> neatly. Oh, i can get them open, but then i have to edit out all the
> formatting code, and a text of a couple pages can open as 30 to 60
> pages with all the code showing.
>
> PDF doesn't work well for the likes of me. I have Acrobat. I can open
> and read the files. But my aged printer doesn't have enough memory to
> print them, a REAL liability.
>
> And OpenOffice Writer? What's that?