ROME: 27th February 2006 -- There is a virtually
unheard of, but
simple and free new technology available which makes the world of
difference when you want to email a file that contains several items
(e.g. text plus images). Obviously this
technology also works with a web page and indeed was developed with
that in mind. The program is called Unipage
Unifier and can be found at www.unipage.org . What does it
do?
If I have a word document, with more than text in it
- diagrams say
- and I want to email this page to someone, this is how I do it.
I use
the 'save as web page' option in Word instead of saving it to .doc
format. I save it to the desktop where I have the Unipage Unifier
icon. Then I drag the recently saved file (by now a folder with
three
or four files in it) onto the Unipage Unifier icon.
Finished! I now
have a single file sitting on the desktop which is an html-unifier
file. I can attach this to email as I would attach any other
file.
The person at the other end does not need anything except Word, if it
was a Word document, or a browser if it was a web page, to
open the file. This means that you could, for example, save one
of the concept maps indicated in #1466 and have it easily available for
personal use or to email to someone - it would include at least the
html file, an xml header file, a jpg file and a word (the full text of
AGC 390) all unified into a single file. The procedure is better
than PDF and faster.
At the moment, Internet Explorer (MIE), up to
version 6, does NOT
recognise this file. More advanced, and free browsers like
Firefox,
work like a charm with this procedure. One could be pretty much
certain that the next version of IE will include this capability.
I
could offer a dozen good reasons for using Firefox instead of IE,
security being one of them, and ease of use being another, but a third
(or a thirteenth) could easily be the capacity just described above.
My experience thus far is that I need to turn off
the javascript in the browser options before I save the page, and turn
it back on afterwards when I view the page. That ensures that the
page
saves properly if it uses javascript. This would be unlikely to
apply to a Word file
you were 'unifying'.
All for free. If you are sending
complicated files by email it is worth considering.
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