RE: Font Size in RTF files

From: Virgil Arrington Jr. (virgilarrington@hotmail.com)
Date: Mon Apr 01 2002 - 18:32:24 EST

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    An update to an old message from Martin,

    Martin wrote:

    >I just spent some very valuable time looking at that (saving of font size
    >codes to blank lines) yesterday. I could
    >not reproduce the bug on MS Word 2000. The blank lines had 12 pt height.

    I just got a new computer at work and found the same thing you did. It's
    really strange.

    On my old computer (IBM Thinkpad, Win98, Word 2000, rel. no. 9.0.3821 SR-1),
    Word used a 10 point default font size and blank lines on exported Abi RTF
    files opened in Word as 10 point size. On my new computer (Microlab (local
    company) desktop, Win2000, Word 2000 rel no. 9.0.4482 SR-1) Word uses a 12
    point default font size and blank lines on the same exported Abi file open
    in Word as 12 point size. This is okay if I really want 12 point font size,
    but if I want 13 -- which I usually use for court documents -- then the 12
    point blank lines aren't right. Either way, I think we need to allow Abi to
    control the font size of its blank lines by inserting the proper code.

    What it illustrates for me, however, are the variances within the MS world
    as the same program on two different computers with two different operating
    systems creates different results. I assume -- and I don't know why -- that
    Word saves its default font size somewhere in the registry. I have found no
    way from within Word to change the default font size. Even the "default
    paragraph font" character style cannot be modified from within the styles
    dialog boxes.

    This all underscores Dom's concern to follow the RTF standards, for it seems
    that, not only does MS not follow them, but it does so inconsistently. It's
    one thing to write to a defacto standard such as Word has become -- which I
    generally favor -- but quite another to write to a defacto standard that has
    become a moving target.

    Virgil

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