Subject: Re: Problems importing RTF files, with patch
From: Hubert Figuiere (hfiguiere@teaser.fr)
Date: Wed Apr 19 2000 - 01:36:13 CDT
According to Alan De Smet <chaos@highprogrammer.com>:
> Hi,
>
> I've been using AbiWord for a bit now, and I really like it.
> Thanks to all who have gotten it this far. Unfortunately it
> isn't yet to a state where it can completely replace Microsoft
> Word for me, but it's getting there, and I'd like to help it
> along. My personal itch is that I need to read and modify RTF
> and Microsoft Word files from other people. So, in the interest
> of reducing the number of times a day I have to reboot to Windows
> 98, I figured maybe I could help improve the importing
> capabilities.
>
> The RTF file at
> http://www.highprogrammer.com/alan/abi/bad_font_table.rtf
> confuses AbiWord and causes it to give up. The file is a valid
> RTF (where valid == Word97 for Win32 loads it). It was created
> on Word 5 for Mac, saved to doc, loaded in Word97 for Win32, and
> saved to RTF.
I have seen really weird things when using Word 5 Mac files within Word 97
in conjuction with RTF conversion: you get weird charset (ie invalid). They
open correctly in both software, but if you stick to the RTF spec, they are
invalid files.
Hub
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