On Apr 19, 2011, at 2:38 PM, RA Brown wrote:
Stephen Throop wrote:
I have a Mac PPC. If I use OO Writer to type a document and save
it as
RTF, it will open fine. If I use OO Writer to open an RTF created
with
another app, then save as RTF, keystrokes and words will be missing,
seemingly at random.
The same problem occurs if I copy and paste text to OO Writer,
than save
as RTF. If I save as ODT, nothing will be missing. If I open the ODT,
whose text was originally created with another app, and save a
copy as
RTF, keystrokes and words will be missing.
RTF can be used to email a document to someone who may not be able to
open ODT. Why is OO Writer not properly making RTF of text not
originally typed with OO Writer?
Stephen,
The support for RTF in LibO and OOo is very poor. You would be
better off using DOC (97/2000/XP) or if they receiver does not need
to edit the file as PDF.
Andy
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Thank you, Andy! How about TXT? At a glance, it seems reliable.
I'm interested not only in a universal format for email but in making
archives I can open in fifteen years if I don't have OO. (I've had a
bad experience in the past.)
I don't know much about DOC. I've read that it was originally like
TXT, but MS expanded it. If OO can save things like columns and
footnotes in DOC, that sounds like my best bet for archives.
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