Re: Atlantis and Abi

From: Hubert Figuiere (hfiguiere@teaser.fr)
Date: Mon Mar 25 2002 - 06:01:46 EST

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    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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