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Old 3rd May 2008
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Originally Posted by corey_james View Post
i just converted my assignment to PDF - 17MB is now a 2.4MB PDF hahaha how sweet
I always hated the "you must use .doc for your assignments" dictatorship in university. I don't have Office at home, never have. And there are never enough computers available in the uni labs.

I've always used WordPerfect (which is just so much nicer than MS Office or OpenOffice when it comes to papers longer than 4 pages). WP has one of the nicest "Export to PDF" features. So I used to always turn my papers in as WP documents and PDFs, with a link in my e-mail to the Adobe Reader and Foxit websites.

Got in a few arguments with different profs over it (mostly won by asking if they were going to spend the $800 for a copy of MS Office for me to use just for their class), and lost marks on one assignment, but I really dislike turning in a read/write document format for read-only purposes.
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