Federations: Slight Guidelines Change
I’ve just slightly edited the submission instructions for Federations to ask that you send your stories in Microsoft Word (DOC) format rather than RTF format as originally specified. This is due to my recent acquisition of an iPhone, on which I plan to do a lot of the submission reading. The reason for the change is that the iPhone (strangely) lets me open up Word documents from my email, but not RTF. The easiest way to go through the submissions seems to be to simply open up each individual email, then open up the story file and read it that way, rather than downloading each individual file and transferring the document onto my iPhone some other way.
If anyone knows of a way (by downloading some application, for instance) of making my iPhone open up RTF docs as it opens Word docs, please let me know.
Note: If you’ve already submitted the story in RTF, there is no need to resubmit.
Luis Filipe Silva
3:14 pm Nov-4-2008Hi. I don’t know if it works on an iPhone (I have a PDA) but if you use Gmail you could in theory try their attachment conversion engine that let’s you read docs (or RTFs or PDFs) as HTML (web pages). At least that’s been working for me – that and labeling/archiving endless messages in that big available inbox space of theirs…
Dr. Phil
6:06 pm Nov-8-2008Not all Microsoft Word .DOC formats are compatible with all versions of Word — that’s why .RTF is so useful. For example I still write in Word 95, which is the Word 95/6.0 version of .DOC, which may or may not be readable on later versions, depending on what version filters you have installed. This is also true of Windows versus Mac Word versions.
You might consider having a preference for Word version(s).
Dr. Phil
Thoraiya Dyer
6:36 pm Nov-13-2008I’m told this is because iPhone doesn’t use any third party or ibm compatible software – in order to prevent the cross-over of computer viruses to iphone.
Therefore you can only read .rtfs via a web page that translates it for you. If your web mail displays .doc files as text at the end of the email, you can read it, but it may not do the same thing for .rtfs.