Can we have firmware changelogs as PDF instead of .docx ?
So we could read them with our browser instead of using another bloated software.
on new topics tag selecting is annoying counterintuitive with new board software
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Can you inform us, wat are de reasons for this to want this ?
.docx is a microsoft data format. Why is somene outthere to use this as an exchange data format???
.pdf is portable;-)
And normaly no one needs to know the creators login name. When it’s created and so on…
So docx is a file format which should never leave any company. (By using microsoft tools it’s left the company before you know it;-))
That is why
Marc
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Docx is a format everyone can read and use.
Using personal aversion against MS to justify it’s a bad file format doesn’t seem reasonable to me.
Changelogs are a very “active” document, maintained by a lot of people. Having everyone going through the extra need of convert it to pdf upon every change, while still needing to maintain the docx somewhere is just work-overhead, i’d say.
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Can we have firmware changelogs as PDF instead of .docx ?
distributing .docx is kind of insane… who on earth does such a thing ? Obviously this should be *.pdf or *.txt
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one reason its more convenient to use a browser for reading, should be obvious
another reason, i do not work for the company and do not maintain the changelog, i am just a customer who need to know what have changed, by the way, published documents aren’t supposed to be edited/changed
converting .docx to pdf isn’t rocket science anymore, just one click on a button
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a Open standard format is always better than a microsoft product.
PDF, or browserbased HTML or on github are fine.