On Tue, 21 Oct 2003, Thomas McGlynn wrote:
> A few minutes ago I uploaded a version of my suggested revised
> proposal for UCDs to the Twiki. This is just a Word version since
> I don't have a PDF generator handy.
An off-topic note to Tom (and others with the same problem in producing PDFs):
Many of us on Unix/Linux systems find Word documents inconvenient; I thought OpenOffice.org might cope with your file, but it produces illegible results without a lot of playing with fonts, and even then was very poor.
Not long ago, however, I came across an on-line service for converting Word documents to PDF (or HTML) which seems quite useful: http://www.gobcl.com/
You upload your document and they email you the PDF a couple of minutes later. I haven't received any obvious spam as a result, and don't know what their privacy policy is, but for documents to be published, this doesn't seem important. I don't know why they provide this service free of charge, but I've found it useful. Actually I got an error message when I submitted Tom's recent UCD document, but the PDF came back anyway, and seems ok, still in glorious technicolor.
-- Clive Page Dept of Physics & Astronomy, University of Leicester, Tel +44 116 252 3551 Leicester, LE1 7RH, U.K. Fax +44 116 252 3311Received on 2003-10-23Z08:42:02