On Saturday 23 January 2010 12:26, dabicho wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I was trying out some rtf documents with lines in it, and they are not
> displayed in openoffice 3.1.1
>
> Is that  missing from support for rtf? or am i missing something?
>
> example rtfs can be found at
> http://interglacial.com/rtf/rtf_book_examples/example_programs
> Those are rtfs from O'reilly's RTF pocket guide.
>

RTF's are a bit of a minefield. The standard though published is maintained by 
one company. The standards are re-released as new versions ad-hoc after each 
new release of Word. Variations exist between how different versions of 
Microsoft products display RTF files. They are sort of a text file 
representation of a binary DOC. Good support by external companies to a 
single manufacturer standard is always hard to find - especially when the 
central company practises so many inconsistencies themselves.

In the past when i was in a small group that tried to pass information by RTF 
we finished by giving up and going to PDF. Now either of the XML based 
formats may better suit instead (although OOXML is a real minefield with poor 
program support for the standard).

HTH

-- 
Michael

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