Clive Bonsall wrote:
On 5 Jan 2010, at 18:10, M.Bellamy wrote:You are comparing apples with pears. MS Word is a "Word Processor"; OPW is DTP software.The difference is, however, lost on your average user. The majority of dissertations and theses are done with Word because that's what everyone thinks of when they have a lot to type.... or, in the case of my own university, because WORD is available on every university-owned computer as part of a global "managed desktop" system
Yes, we've got one of those. Still running Word 2003, which is fun when all the students have Word 2007 on their laptops.
There wasn't a chance in hell I was going to use Word for mine, but most universities now insist on an electronic copy for plagiarism checks and OPro files probably won't be accepted.True, but PDF would ... and OPW will interface with any PDF maker.
This is the route I went, converting pages with images to pdfs that I then printed off on a PC (OPro was the RISC OS version). I dare say conversion to pdf goes smoother from OPW than from Word based on some of the attempts I've seen that started as Word files.
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