Re: [Fsfe-uk] Health Service departments unable to read AbiWord attachments

[Lee Braiden]

On Tuesday 08 March 2005 18:33, John Seago wrote:
> Today I had occasion to send an email with a copy of a letter which I had
> sent to my Primary Care Health Trust to the Healthcare Commission, I sent
> the letter as an AbiWord attachment, the  Healthcare Commission tell me
> that " the format is not recognised.". Now as the Healthcare Commission
> deals with complaints about service, to whom should I address a complaint
> about their use of an operating system that cannot open AbiWord
> attachments?

OpenOffice.org 2 uses the OASIS file format, which is on its way to becoming a 
'standard' office file format.  KDE's Office is also moving to support it, 
and I think some of the big office packages (Adobe, perhaps?) do as well.  
I'm not sure if Abiword is planning to use it, but that's a definite 
possibility too.  If you want to encourage them to use open office document 
format, that's the one you should aim for.

However, if you want to send them something to print, they don't need an 
office format at all.  An HTML file would do, as someone suggested, or a PS 
or PDF.

-- 
Lee.