On Sat, 2002-03-23 at 19:00, Sanity in Anarchy wrote: > >>PS. I'm aiming for 100% RTF export compatibility with Word. I need it for > >>my job. > > > >As do I. And from what I read on the lists, we are not alone. The problem, > >as Hub has pointed out, is that MS doesn't follow its own RTF specs in terms > >of default RTF font size, so a philosophical decision has to be made. Do we > >make Abi follow the RTF specs or do we make it follow what Word actually > >does? I vote for the latter. > > Since Abi pretends to save as .doc when it in fact saves in RTF format, > perhaps the best ways to solve this are: > > 1.) Actually export in MS Word format, so as not to confuse applications that > rely entirely on extention or
Feel free to write that code. > 2.) When saving as a .doc file, make the RTF comply with what Word does, and > when saving as a .rtf file, comply with RTF standards or No. > 3.) Stop pretending to have Word export capability and simply have the option > to select whether to comply with Word or with the actual RTF specs, and make > it clear in the documentation that Word can read RTF files, and they are often > smaller than a "real" Word document. See bug 1410 http://bugzilla.abisource.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1410 I *WAS* against that feature. Someone else did, not because he was for doing it, but he was annoyed too much by people doing insane requests. I you think that is a mis-feature, please file a new bug. Hub
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