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Article #400Re: In-line graphics (was Re: SoftPC 2.0 or 3.0)
From: Dave Griffiths
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1992 17:25
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1992 17:25
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In article <1992Aug10.132122.16546@athena.mit.edu> ray@mtl.mit.edu writes: >However, it still >falls to the user community to hold developers accountable (why can't I >copy RTF out of FrameMaker????) and not tolerate applications that do not >integrate well into the environment. > But the users don't have a choice when FrameMaker is something of a standard. Boycotting it will only hurt themselves. As for not being able to copy RTF, this is a problem also shared by that other "standard" app, WordPerfect. The reason is that neither program uses the Text object. They must output postscript directly (ugh) thus avoiding the object-oriented inheritance of features like cut-and-paste of rich text. It would be interesting to know *why* they didn't use the Text object. Dave Griffiths
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!mcsun!Germany.EU.net!unido!prim!dave From: prim!dave@germany.eu.net (Dave Griffiths) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.programmer Subject: Re: In-line graphics (was Re: SoftPC 2.0 or 3.0) Message-ID: <1992Aug11.172502.393@prim> Date: 11 Aug 92 17:25:02 GMT References: <1992Aug9.183918.17665@utstat.uucp> <1992Aug10.132122.16546@athena.mit.edu> Organization: Primitive Software Ltd. Lines: 18