Subject: Re: Export Word -> save as RTF .doc?
From: Dom Lachowicz (cinamod@hotmail.com)
Date: Mon Apr 30 2001 - 09:14:01 CDT
>Jesper
>
>Im certain i suggested this previously but it was decided that Abiword
>was going to do it the right way or not at all, i think its Dom's call
>really.
Thank you. Yes, IMNSHO Abi should either do things correctly or not at all.
>Perhaps it would be appropriate to add this information and an
>explaination to the help documentation (sorry, but im not volunteering)
I really like this suggestion. Saving as RTF when we select "Save as .DOC"
is a bad idea. I've got some free time this week and I was planning on
trying to get the DOC exporter to work a bit more. People are strongly
encouraged to help.
Dom
>
>Jesper Skov wrote:
> >
> > Uh, why is it that we don't as a temporary measue, make the Word
> > export type save RTF formatted document as .doc and let the Word
> > importer recognize this as well?
> >
> > IMO it'll be better to document that this is what happens, rather than
> > document how people can get a working Word document by exporting as
> > RTF and do the renaming themselves.
> >
> > Jesper
>
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