Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 18:50:55 -0600 (CST)
From: Jay Nelson <jdn@acp.qiv.com>
To: Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au>
Cc: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: Re: How do I read RTF ("Rich Text Format")?
Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980127184552.1404A-100000@acp.qiv.com>
In-Reply-To: <19980128105457.48663@welearn.com.au>
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Sue, Do you know if the current RTF specs at M$ are valid for the latest iterations of Word? I've bumped into this enough, I may try do do something. Is there any consensus on what output format everyone needs? Troff, TeX? -- Jay On Wed, 28 Jan 1998, Sue Blake wrote: >On Wed, Jan 28, 1998 at 09:51:46AM +1030, Greg Lehey wrote: > > >> > StarOffice and a .doc file might be the best way if it's the bad-RTF >> > Word. >> >> I couldn't get StarOffice to even look at the document. Didn't I say >> that in my original message. > >Lemme try that again :-) It could be because the RTF was produced by the >version of Word which doesn't do proper RTF (Word 6 or 7?). In that case, if >you want to read it in StarOffice you'd be better off asking for a file in >its original Word (*.doc) format. > > >-- > >Regards, > -*Sue*- >
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