Re: [hylafax-users] for those who wish to fax MS Word docs...

["Kevin P. Fleming" <kpfleming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Lee Howard wrote:

> Deep down, though, I'm not a big fan of handling Word docs directly, just 
> like I'm not a big fan of handling HTML docs directly.  Word docs look 
> slightly different based on whatever printer and print driver you happen 
> to be using.  It's going to be almost impossible to guarantee proper 
> pagination and formatting "identical" to what the creator's Word program 
> displays on-screen because Word docs weren't really designed to be 
> portable that way, like PDFs are.  And, this goes pretty much for any 
> word processor filetype.  If the sender wants to guarantee that the 
> formatting look as it does to them, then they must export the document to 
> a format that can guarantee it.  PostScript, PDF, and TIFF all guarantee 
> this.  Word and HTML cannot.  So, my using antiword here is just a couple 
> steps better than using wvPS here, which is just a bit better (I suppose 
> to these folks) than saying, "Well, it's better than nothing."

Agreed 100%. Combine that with the fact that any given Word document may:

- use fonts that are present only on the creator's system
- have links to external graphic files
- have embedded OLE 'objects' that need to be rendered by their host 
application
- etc.

Print-to-fax solves every one of these problems.

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