On 23 Sep 2004 at 11:52, Andrew Stiller wrote: > >On 22 Sep 2004 at 12:04, Johannes Gebauer wrote: > > > >> On 22.09.2004 4:02 Uhr, David W. Fenton wrote > >> > >> >> The ability to import text to a text block from a Word processor, > >> >> keeping the formatting intact, would be a big help, too. > >> > > >> > That will never happen, because Mac and PC have two completely > >> > different standards for object embedding and data interchange between > >> > applications. > >> > >> Well, it would be possible using RTF, no? Works in other programs. > > > >What, exactly, would interpret the RTF? Would it be editable once > >imported? If so, what would handle the editing? > > > >These are not at all trivial questions. > > > >-- > >David W. Fenton > > I recently published a piece whose extensive preface had been created > in a Windows word processor. The author made a PDF of it wh. he sent > to me. I extracted the text from it, pasted it into half a dozen > Finale text blocks, and edited it. Where's the problem?
Well, nothing, but it's certainly not "keeping the formatting intact" when you're talking about things like Word's dot-leader tab settings (which is where this whole conversation started). There's no way for Finale to preserve that without understanding Word's document format. And that is simply not going to happen. If this discussion were only about preserving text sizes and font styles (bold, italic, underline, etc.), then there wouldn't have been a discussion in the first place. -- David W. Fenton http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
