Re: Docs To Go and Abiword

On Sun, 2004-11-14 at 08:06 -0600, Shannon T. Baker wrote:
> No one asked the AbiWord development community to fix the bug in DTG
> (especially not me since it isn't even an issue I reported) I only did some
> testing in response to another post and then presented my results, strictly
> to help out another user in troubleshooting. As I posted already, I don't
> see this as a bug in DTG nor are they likely to fix it because their goal
> and the feature is described as compatibility with MS Office not Open Office
> or AbiWord.

Do DTG advertise RTF ? If yes, then they should be able to read OUR RTF
which is read perfectly read by MS-Office and lot of other RTF
compatible programs. Otherwise it is a bug.

According to
http://www.dataviz.com/products/documentstogo/standard/index.html
they claim to support "RTF". Then there is a bug. RTF syntax is relax
enough to allow different way to write files to conform to the syntax.

[...]
> My issue was a (perceived)
> attitude of "We don't need to check our code because we know it is perfect,
> go tell the other guy "who gets paid for it" to do it.

You question was percieved as "Documents to Go" do not like your RTF,
lets go and fix your RTF.

Oh I'm sorry, we are not wizard, we don't have crystal-gazing super
powers. The main point as that as far as we know our RTF writing is
conformant to the spec. And we don't have enough information to find
where our RTF is incompatible with Documents To Go. But since our
document are compatible with the program they claim to be compatible
with (MS-Office), I'd bet the ball is on their side.

[...]

> I would like to point out one "flaw" in you logic, as I see it. Please
> correct me if I am wrong. You say that "We know for a fact that our
> generated RTF is the most compliant in the world, only second to MS Word
> generated RTF itself." yet the point of this is that MS implementations of
> rtf work while others don't so wouldn't that mean that there is at least the
> potential of an issue with the AbiWord implementation and not an error by
> the DTG programmers.

There is still a potential, but chances are fewer than for DTG to have a
bug than us. So until proved wrong, I'll no claim otherwise.
And since nobody here has DTG and that most of the developpers don't run
Windows or MacOS (myself for example), and that we don't even have
access to the source code, it does not make our life simplier.

[...]

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