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Article #12184Re: Rich Text Format?? -- Help
From: Stephan Eggermont
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 1995 10:32
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 1995 10:32
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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? > "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. Well, so they all claim. In the Real World (r) there are some complications. Summary: it doesn't work. But if you stick to the very basic features of your word-processor, use no graphics, formula's, autonumbering, symbols outside the ASCII 32..127 range and don't convert from PC to Mac or vice- versa, it works. Stephan
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!turtle.stack.urc.tue.nl!stephan From: stephan@stack.urc.tue.nl (Stephan Eggermont) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.dcom.modems Subject: Re: Rich Text Format?? -- Help Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.dcom.modems Date: 19 Dec 1995 10:32:28 GMT Organization: MCGV Stack, Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands. Message-ID: <4b64bs$r9r@tuegate.tue.nl> References: <Pine.SGI.3.91.951212171420.402A@wong> <4amshv$lib@post.gsfc.nasa.gov> NNTP-Posting-Host: turtle.stack.urc.tue.nl X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2]