Michael Scottaline wrote:
> Not to beat this to death, but I tried this littl experiment just now. I
> opened a document in AbiWord (0.99.7) that had a .aw extension (from
> Applixware). Went to "save as", and saved it as a .doc file [yes, it's
> one of the options, along with .rtf and a half dozen others]. I then
> closed AbiWord and opened StarOffice 6.0beta. Found the new file with a
> .doc extension and it was identified as a MSWord .doc (even at the little
> M$ symbol next to the file name). BTW, SO opened it instantly and
> flawlessly (SO can neither import or export .aw extensions). Try it if
> you have a 0.99.x version of AbiWord.
Hi Mike,
I agree, I don't want to beat this to death ;-). The version of AbiWord
I am using is 0.99.2 for Windows. If I save a file as .doc and then
open it in a plain text editor (like Notepad, etc.) it starts with:
{\rtf1\ansi\ansicpg1252\deff0\deflang1033
{\fonttbl
{\f0\froman\fcharset0\fprq2\fttruetype Times New Roman;}
Which, to me, indicates it is .rtf and not true .doc. It is possible
this changed after 0.99.2, but I don't think that was the intent.
I forget why AbiWord chose this course for the time being -- either the
underlying import / export library for word (wv, IIUC) cannot export
true .doc, or doesn't do it as well as .rtf.
Or maybe .rtf can be read, for example by more versions of Word than
.doc (as the .doc format has changed with some implementations of Word).
regards,
Randy Kramer
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