Re: Fwd: Questions

From: Alan Horkan (horkana@tcd.ie)
Date: Tue Apr 16 2002 - 05:30:20 EDT

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    On Thu, 11 Apr 2002, Francisco Borneo wrote:

    > Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 23:30:19 -0300
    > From: Francisco Borneo <cborneo@mx1.ligbr.com.br>
    > To: edkaspro@juno.com
    > Cc: abiword-user@abisource.com
    > Subject: Re: Fwd: Questions
    >
    > At 18:39 09/04/02 +0100, Alan wrote:
    >
    > >if you mean can you open .abw documents without having abiword the answer
    > >is basically no.
    >
    > If you want to uninstall aw and retain your files, save them in .rtf,
    > delete aw and, maybe, you'll be able to open them in Atlantis, Word,
    > Staroffice and so on. I guess...

    maybe not StarOffice
    they follow the RFT standard exactly, but Microsoft does not follow the
    standard (and we chose to follow MS) so it breaks.
    http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2244

    But besides plaintext, Rich Text Format (.rft) is definately your best
    bet.

    Sincerely
    Alan Horkan

    http://matrix.netsoc.tcd.ie/~horkana/

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