MDI on DR - Page 2

omro · 11-26-2008, 10:48 AM

Because MDI cost them nothing and was approved when Office 2003 passed software compliance and was installed when Office 2003 installed.

omro · 11-26-2008, 10:49 AM

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Originally Posted by Nate the great

Open Office lets you save to a PDF.

True and I use OOo exclusively at home on both my Mac, my rather ancient PC desktop and my MSI Wind clone netbook. However, work will NEVER go for it.

Nate the great · 11-26-2008, 11:00 AM

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Originally Posted by omro

True and I use OOo exclusively at home on both my Mac, my rather ancient PC desktop and my MSI Wind clone netbook. However, work will NEVER go for it.

I bet you were trying to convince the IT department. You should have been talking to management.

Pitch it as a money issue- it doesn't cost them anything. Or, when there is a discussion of upgrading to Office 2007, point out that Office 2007 dropped support for all Word document formats before (I think) Word 97. Open Office still supports those documents.

kanguro · 11-26-2008, 12:04 PM

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Originally Posted by JSWolf

So if software compliance is such a big issue, why MDI and not PDF?

wE arE Micr0sOfT. Resistance Is fUtiLe.

allovertheglobe · 11-26-2008, 12:10 PM

Also, unless the DR1000 is used company-wide, can't you just convert the docs they pass to you by yourself, for your own viewing on your very own DR1000?

omro · 11-26-2008, 12:19 PM

Sure, but that would require I copy the documents from the office computer to another computer, convert them and then copy them to the DR.

I can't install a PDF writer or conversion software onto the office PC.

Would have been nice to just copy them from my office computer to the DR

ShortNCuddlyAm · 11-26-2008, 05:10 PM

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Originally Posted by BookishDreamer

Don't you still need a full version of Adobe Acrobat for that?

Dreamer

Apparently not. It doesn't let you do all the things you can with the full Adobe product, but if you just want to convert a document to a PDF it works fine. We're thinking about rolling it out at work because we're fed up with people asking for the full version of Adobe just to do straightforward conversions.

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Originally Posted by Nate the great

I bet you were trying to convince the IT department. You should have been talking to management.

Certainly where I work, the opposite is the case.

11-26-2008, 10:48 AM	#16
omro Addict Posts: 375 Karma: 452000 Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Hamilton, On Device: Kobo Aura HD	Because MDI cost them nothing and was approved when Office 2003 passed software compliance and was installed when Office 2003 installed.

11-26-2008, 12:10 PM	#20
allovertheglobe Grumpy Old Man Posts: 267 Karma: 30194 Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: L.A., Euro ex-pat Device: Kobo, Nook Classic,Color,ST/Glow, iRex DR1000, Sony 505, REB1100&1200	Also, unless the DR1000 is used company-wide, can't you just convert the docs they pass to you by yourself, for your own viewing on your very own DR1000?

11-26-2008, 12:19 PM	#21
omro Addict Posts: 375 Karma: 452000 Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Hamilton, On Device: Kobo Aura HD	Sure, but that would require I copy the documents from the office computer to another computer, convert them and then copy them to the DR. I can't install a PDF writer or conversion software onto the office PC. Would have been nice to just copy them from my office computer to the DR