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| Thread ID: 33594 | 2003-05-20 00:10:00 | What file format to email from Apple to PC? | Peter (676) | Press F1 |
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| 145878 | 2003-05-20 00:10:00 | What file extension can be used on an Apple to create a text document that can be emailed and be opened on Apples and PCs and also retain the formating? Is a .pdf the only solution? Peter E. |
Peter (676) | ||
| 145879 | 2003-05-20 00:23:00 | Pdf if you don't want the format to change, yes But you can also use MS Word as you can run this on the MAC and I think you can just download a word viewer as well for both MAC & PC |
roben (3835) | ||
| 145880 | 2003-05-20 00:24:00 | So Mac OS and Windows use two different ASCII text tables to represent the characters. I wonder if Unix/Linux editors are affected? Is email also different? I'm sure it uses it's own text table. If it's just text then why not just use the email page for it? |
Kame (312) | ||
| 145881 | 2003-05-20 00:25:00 | you could use an internet browser standard like html.... that's fairly platform independant, so can be opened on win32, *nix, and macos... | whetu (237) | ||
| 145882 | 2003-05-20 00:59:00 | Sorry, I should have said the formated text document (with columns etc) will need to emailed as an attachment. P. |
Peter (676) | ||
| 145883 | 2003-05-20 01:20:00 | Depending on what it was created on try saving it in RTF or an office version the recipient is using When sending as an attachment this will vary depending on your email program. If using Mac OE for instance after adding the attachment select the encoding as Windows(MIME/base64) |
Jim B (153) | ||
| 145884 | 2003-05-20 02:25:00 | RTF would be my call if you don't already have MS WORD | roofus (483) | ||
| 145885 | 2003-05-20 03:09:00 | > So Mac OS and Windows use two different ASCII text > tables to represent the characters. I wonder if > Unix/Linux editors are affected? Really? If it's in UTF-8 it should be fine. |
segfault (655) | ||
| 145886 | 2003-05-20 04:58:00 | I'm not sure how or why it's like that... maybe it's been fixed but ages ago you needed to run a program that converts MAC-DOS or DOS-MAC text just so the characters in the text were shown as they were correctly shown, due to their ASCII tables being slightly different. In programming, Mac's newline is /r and DOS/Unix is /n. Not that I know if this has anything to do with it, but my text editor shows all the characters for MAC/DOS/UNIX and helps if I'm trying to port to different OS. I use a Editor that supports DOS/MAC/UNIX so it doesn't bother me which one it is, my editor also prompts me if I would like to convert the text (if it picks it up different to my OS). As for the encoding, that's dependant on how you save it? Some editors don't give you the option of changing the encoding, so you just use what it gives you. |
Kame (312) | ||
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