[softwarelist] Re: OPW and copy/paste options
- From: Clive Bonsall <cbonsall@xxxxxxx>
- To: davidpilling@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2010 17:14:36 +0000
On 6 Jan 2010, at 14:51, M.Bellamy wrote:
> 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 ...
Same here.
> which is fun when all the students have Word 2007 on their laptops.
Not sure about that ... but likely, if it came bundled with the laptop
>>> 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.
OP (RiscOS) is very capable. The weak link in producing PDFs was the old PS2
printer driver ... I used to try and run the PostScript output thru' Acrobat
Distiller v4 on a PC (you could do it directly under VRPC ... print to host),
but quite often "distilling" would fail. I'm guessing the situation has been
improved dramatically by the new PS3 driver, tho' I haven't tested it
rigorously. OPW offers more control/options, with output to <PDFprinter> or
direct PS.
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