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Article #12183Re: Rich Text Format?? -- Help
From: Paul Constantine
Date: Sat, 16 Dec 1995 18:48
Date: Sat, 16 Dec 1995 18:48
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In article <4amshv$lib@post.gsfc.nasa.gov>, "Ian E. Sprod"
<Ian.Sprod@gsfc.nasa.gov> wrote:
:Ian Russell Ollmann <iano@scripps.edu> wrote:
:>
:>A journal recently asked a friend of mine to return a translation in
:>"Rich Text Format" via the internet. Does anyone know what this means and
:>if there is a mac application to translate something like an MS Word file
:>or a postscript file to Rich Text Format?
:>
:> Ian Ollmann
:>
:> Please cc: a reply to iano@scripps.edu and hendrix@scripps.edu.
:
:"Rich Text Format" or RTF is a "standard" :-) format for formatted text.
:Both MS-Word and WordPerfect (and every other WP package worth it's salt)
:can read and write this format.
:
:So from MS-Word select "Save As" and choose "RTF" for the type of file. RTF
:files consist of ASCII text so you should be able to email this OK.
:
:I don't know of a PostScript to RTF converter, but if it exists I am sure
:it's from Adobe so ask them.
No such thing as a "postscript to rtf" utility. Never will be. Postscript
can do about 10,000 more things than rtf. All rtf does is change a word
precessor's "native" formatting codes to a microsloth defined set of plain
ascii characters.
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