Re: Word's "HTML" Output (was: Outputting to HTML and PDF formats?)

[Sandy Harris <sandy -at- storm -dot- ca>]

"Eichelberger, Mark" wrote:
> 
> Hi all. I currently write a weekly newsletter sent to clients via email and posted
> in pdf format on the company website.  We are toying with the idea of sending an
> HTML version via email for clients that can read HTML email; i.e. Outlook.

As a net.oldfart (roughly definable as anyone who was already using the net before
the web was invented in 1990), I tend to think email should be ASCII text. Period.
I sometimes set systems up to automatically discard HTML mail.

My solution would be to scrap the PDF, put the thing on your site in HTML, and
mail a pointer to it, with or without the news in text format.
 
I'm not alone in this. See the net journalist guild's advice on press releases:

http://www.netpress.org/careandfeeding.html

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