Subj : Re: How much should I charge for fixed-price software contract?
To   : comp.programming
From : Randy Howard
Date : Sun Aug 21 2005 06:47 pm

blmblm@myrealbox.com wrote
(in article <3mqdceF17or2cU2@individual.net>):

>> True, yet another argument for exporting to PDF and sending that 
>> instead.  
> 
> If only I could convince all the people who send me Word files to go
> that route.

Indeed.  The problem is it is more difficult to teach office 
users how to do it, since it's not built into the office suite 
like it is with OpenOffice.  You can do hackish things like 
install a "PDF Printer" in Windows, then "print" to it, which 
will actually save a .pdf file on their hard drive somewhere, 
which they then have to find and mail to you for example.  Or 
they can buy one of several commercial snap-ins to do something 
more like the OpenOffice solution.  It might not be worth it.

;-)


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