Re: [Bug 2503] - Default font size code not saved to blank lines in RTF Files

From: Virgil Arrington Jr. (virgilarrington@hotmail.com)
Date: Fri Feb 22 2002 - 17:03:13 GMT

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    Hub,

    Allow me to lobby my reason for requesting this change. In my view, a word
    processor can only be successful in one of two ways. Either it becomes the
    industry standard or is fully compatible with the industry standard.
    Despite all your hard and valiant work, I don't see Abi knocking off MS-Word
    as the industry standard anytime soon.

    In my situation, my employer uses Word. I don't have Word at home and, in
    fact, use several different computers away from my office. The openness of
    Abi permits me to use it on all my computers without license-angst. But,
    the reality is that 95% of my documents will eventually need to be able to
    be read by Word as I share them with others in my office who don't use Abi.
    I imagine I'm not alone in this scenario.

    Thus, documents created with Abi should be fully importable into Word
    without having to reformat. As it is now, I can't do that, which reduces
    the usefulness of Abi for my work. I realize that Word has deviated from
    its own RTF specs, but perhaps in doing so, it has created a new defacto
    spec.

    I'm not sure I follow you concerning "defining the stylesheet properly in
    the RTF," but if it results in Abi's RTF files being more readily readable
    by the industry standard without reformatting, I'm all for it.

    Virgil

    >From: bugzilla-daemon@abisource.com
    >To: virgilarrington@hotmail.com
    >Subject: [Bug 2503] - Default font size code not saved to blank lines in
    >RTF Files
    >Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 19:35:23 +0000 (GMT)
    >
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    >
    >http://bugzilla.abisource.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2503
    >
    >hfiguiere@teaser.fr changed:
    >
    > What |Old Value |New Value
    >----------------------------------------------------------------------------
    > OS/Version|Windows 98 |All
    > Priority|P3 |P5
    > Platform|PC |All
    >
    >
    >
    >------- Additional Comments From hfiguiere@teaser.fr 2002-02-21 19:35
    >-------
    >I'm not really for fixing that. We shouldn't set \fs24 but rather define
    >the
    >stylesheet properly in the RTF. and \fs24 is generated because MS-Word
    >itself is
    >unable to stick to the RTF spec.
    >
    >Setting priortity to P5

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