Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 09/28/07 03:35

The Natural Philosopher wrote:
> Butting in as an aside..
>
> Steve, whats your opinion of an RTF format?
>
> I need to generate invoices and suchlike from a PHP/apache combo, and
> PDF's look a shade overkill.
>
> I MAY simply print to a queue on the server in PCL or somesuch, but that
> won't work for remote clients.
>
> I wpld sem o have three chocices fir siomething that gos in a web screen
> or an email
>
> HTML, with all the bollocks that entails,.
> PDF and all the bollocks THAT entails.
> Plain Text, and fudge the graphics
> RTF?
>
> what else is possible?
>
> Not looking for obscure comapatibility issues: Just a robust 95%
> solution that almost everyone will be able to use.
>
>
>>

The "problem" with rtf's is that they are still open to interpretation.
For instance, whichever program is interpreting the file may break a
line where *it* seems fit, not where you think it should be broken.

Now this may be an advantage - i.e. if they're printing War and Peace,
it gives them the ability to break lines at convenient places. But if
you're doing an invoice, it may not be so good.

With PDF's you get *exactly* what you put in the file. Which is good
for invoices, but not War and Peace.

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