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In article <1992Aug11.172502.393@prim> prim!dave@germany.eu.net (Dave Griffiths) writes:
>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.

Who cares "why", they _should_ be supporting the pasteboard.
WriteNow, FrameMaker, and WordPerfect are the only 3 NeXTSTEP text
processing applications available besides edit, and NONE of them have
ANY RTF pboard support.  And I'll just kill Glenn if PasteUp doesn't.


andrew
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