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Article #4559Re: Rich Text Format -- where can I get a spec?
From: Chuq Von Rospach
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 1988 00:33
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 1988 00:33
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>I have been looking into document interchange formats. Recently I ran into
>a reference to a "Rich Text Format" invented by Microsoft.
>Where can I get a spec for this format? I'll appreciate any info (even
>rumor (-: ) that you can send.
Write to Microsoft's Rich Text group, at company headquarters (I don't have
the address handy). They'll send you a copy. I got one a while back (well,
actually, I got half of one -- it was one side of a two sided copy. Talk
about QA problems!) and it looks pretty neat. One REAL nice thing about this
is that you can take a text only application, like HyperCard, and teach it
to output a file that can be read into Word in a formatted form, so you can
(indirectly) do typeface styles. Neat stuff.
Chuq Von Rospach chuq@sun.COM Delphi: CHUQ
Speed it up. Keep it Simple. Ship it on time.
-- Bill Atkinson
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!nrl-cmf!ames!oliveb!sun!plaid!chuq From: chuq@plaid.Sun.COM (Chuq Von Rospach) Newsgroups: comp.text Subject: Re: Rich Text Format -- where can I get a spec? Message-ID: <46682@sun.uucp> Date: 24 Mar 88 00:33:35 GMT References: <208@ateng.UUCP> Sender: news@sun.uucp Reply-To: chuq@sun.UUCP (Chuq Von Rospach) Organization: Fictional Reality Lines: 19