On Jul 20, 2010, at 7:59 AM, James Therrault wrote: > > I believe that RTF is a relatively late development as sort of a bridge > between full blown type control and plain text. But like you, it can pass on > as some here just don't know a lot about typography.
RTF is about the only thing Microsoft ever did right, standards-wise, and predates HTML and such. It was introduced in 1987, and is an eminently useful standard for generating formatted text programmatically...in my day job I use it a lot to crank out printable reports and forms, especially ones that need to be modified by the end-user, which rules out PDF for the most part. (Also, if you aver need a simple, easy-to-parse and modify RTF document, to use as a template, for instance, WordPad from Windows 95 or 98 is unparalleled. Word, TextEdit, and most other word processors make enormously complex RTF files. "Hello World" in WordPad RTF is a few hundred bytes, in Word it's like 14 or 20K. I have an old copy of WordPad squirreled away in my XP vm just for that purpose.) -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
