Stephen Throop wrote:
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.
Plain text is the lowest common form. There is no formatting or
graphics so should work across the board.
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.)
This is why the ODF formats were created. The total file is an archive
created using ZIP. The contents of the archive as text files, with XML
tags so that a program like OOo can display it with formatting and
graphics. Now the graphics, a binary file, are stored in a standard
format that most graphic programs can display.
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.
DOC and RTF ar both MS owned closed formats. OOo and LibO have what
limited conversion they have from reverse engineering files. It is not
and can not 100% compatible. Someone at MS leaked the format for DOC
but anyone making a 100% compatible program would be sued. MS forces
incompatibility to create vendor lock-in. Do a web search for ODF vs
DOC and read up on some of the background for ODF.
Andy
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