RE: Abi and RTF standards

From: Gino Peregrini (gino@ghazalpage.net)
Date: Mon Mar 25 2002 - 10:28:15 EST

  • Next message: Hubert Figuiere: "RE: Abi and RTF standards"

    On 25 Mar 2002, Dom Lachowicz wrote:

    > I refuse to let our standards complaince fall to an OO level. We will
    > not compromise our integrity to cover up another's mistakes.
    >
    > For the record, MSWord is highly complaint with the RTF specification,
    > so I don't view this so much as a problem. Sure, it doesn't honor a few
    > of the RTF keywords that Abi uses. But then it just ignores them, for a
    > minor loss in formatting. That's a small price to pay.
    >
    Dom,
    I agree completely. People forget that nothing's perfect, especially
    MS code. I teach on the university level, tech writing. I have tried to
    get my students to use RTF. Do they? Not many. So compatibility with DOC
    is very useful for me. I often open doc files attached to email on my
    linux box at home. I have few to no problems.

    I did have an odd situation last fall. A student sent an RTF file created
    with XP; the AbiWord I was using then wouldn't open it. He resent it as
    DOC and it opened fine. This problem hasn't recurred, but I don't think
    many are using XP yet. Has anyone else encountered this?

    Gino

    -- 
    gino@ghazalpage.net
    The Ghazal Page
    www.ghazalpage.net
    

    ----------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to abiword-user-request@abisource.com with the word unsubscribe in the message body.



    This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.4 : Mon Mar 25 2002 - 10:24:48 EST