Re: Microsoft makes a lot of money, Is Intel exceptionally unsuccessful as an architecture designer?

MitchAlsup1 <mitchalsup@aol.com> schrieb:

On Tue, 24 Sep 2024 0:53:14 +0000, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
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Anybody producing large amounts of high-quality, complex textual
material > (e.g. technical documentation) is inevitably going to
have to move beyond WYSIWYG tools and adopt some kind of markup
system.

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I disagree.
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Word is just fine as long as all your drawings are *.jpg.
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What feature do you think is missing ??

I intensely dislike jpeg drawings in Word. They blow up the
file size and are still limited in resolution.  Vector files
are better.

Hmm... a feature that Word has added in the last decade, that is
quite good:  It is now possible to import *.svg files.

I have found a convoluted way for creating graphics: Write a
Fortran program that creates PostScript for output.  Convert the
PostScript into PDF with a suitable tool, Adobe or ghostscript.
Open the PDF with Inkscape, adjust the bounding box, and save it
as *.svg.  Import into Word (or PowerPoint).  Ready!

Directly importing PDF into Word is a nightmare, you get blocky
graphics, and nothing works if somebody else uses a different
PDF viewer.