Re: Footer height vs OO footer height

On (13:55 31/10/08), Martin Sevior <martines@unimelb.edu.au> put forth the proposition:
> On Fri, 2008-10-31 at 02:57 +0000, Dave Wood wrote:
> > On (02:33 31/10/08), Dave Wood <dave@unrealize.co.uk> put forth the proposition:
> > >
>
> > > >
> > > > Hi Dave,
> > > > MS Word standard headers and footers for letter and A4 sizes
> > > > are 1 inch (2.54 cm). You can easily change your abiword header and
> > > > footer sizes in the page setup dialog (under file).
> >
> > One more question -are the margin/header/footer sizes saved within the file
> > (in rtf) or do they get adjusted to whatever the word processing app is
> > using when opening a file?
>
>
> They're saved in the rtf file. However OO.o is not particularly good at
> importing rtf and might screw this up. Our *.odt exporter should
> preserve it for OO.o. If it doesn't please file a bug.

Haven't tried odt yet - I'm using rtf because it seems to be a format that
most programs can open. I just tried to resave an rtf in OO.o and it
completely messed up formatting - change from double line spacing to single
in all paragraphs, page numbers disappeared. I also booted up into windows
and tried out the word viewer on an rtf and with some change to margins it
seems to import rtf without problems.

Why OO.o can't get rtf right is a mystery to me. It's one of the oldest
text formats there is.

Just another reason to stick to abiword I think.
>
> Cheers
>
> Martin
>

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