That's a very hand tip. Thanks again.
I know I'll be lucky to get a serious agent working on my behalf, but it seems some will have a quick look. Some require a printout with very wasteful margins and double spacing, so nearly 1,000 sheets for some of them. What's more, they all have different ideas of a correct layout.
Some will accept Word files, but never heard of anyone accepting WP. PDF maybe. My immediate requirement is for an easy reader for folk to have an initial look. It is a very odd book, from a very odd writer, so I need that feedback. Oddly, a roomful of middle-aged ladies liked my protagonist and worried about his well-being, while my professor son found the first chapter flying sequences tedious. I have to listen to a broad spectrum of people right now.
This morning's angst. I've put a test PDF on my laptop - Vista with Adobe X - which I'd just updated. When I came to run it on my PC W7 with Reader 9, the text on the screen is horrible. Wife says it's okay, but it just isn't. As a CAD bloke of the 80s, I took an eyeglass to the screen and I can see light pixels down the sides of each letter. Sharp as a razor with the normal WP screen. Same file, only differene is the Adobe version yet it tells me I'm up to date. Is the fact is on W7 the reason I can't get ver 10?