At 04:49 02/10/2011 -0700, Pedro Noname wrote:
What [someone was] saying is that when you press the Save button in a doc file (and you are not informed of this problem when you just Save it, only on Save As) there is a conversion that causes the document NOT to be saved as you are seeing it on-screen but could be something else completely different...[...]But when you are working within the same format, you assume that what is on screen is what is being saved!
It should clear that this cannot be true. Much of the structure of a word processor document is not directly visible on the editing screen. (Consider, just as an example, paragraph breaks, line breaks, and line ends that occur dynamically as text flows within a passage - which all appear the same.) The saved document file contains a definition of the document, and what you see on the editing screen is merely a rendering - accurate or otherwise - of that definition. Even the same application software may render the document differently on different platforms, with different but identically named fonts or even substituted fonts, with different printers having different minimum margins, and so on. The differences between renderings by a different version of the same software or by different software will generally be greater.
It is an understandable and convenient idea that your correspondents will automatically see what you see when they open your word processor document files, but that is not so. But you need distribute such files only if you are co-operating with your correspondents in editing the material. In the majority of cases, recipients need only to display, read, and possibly print your work, so PDF documents are a better bet. As its name suggests, this format is designed to be more portable.
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