Comments on: Blogger wonders about ODF http://cleardefinition.com/oss/abi/blog/2007/01/17/blogger-wonders-about-odf/ Updates of Abi-related news in the greater community, as well as nightly build notifications! Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:20:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.3 by: ryan http://cleardefinition.com/oss/abi/blog/2007/01/17/blogger-wonders-about-odf/#comment-7261 Thu, 18 Jan 2007 01:22:49 +0000 http://cleardefinition.com/oss/abi/blog/2007/01/17/blogger-wonders-about-odf/#comment-7261 If WordPerfect is having trouble doing import/export of RTF, it is a WordPerfect bug - everyone else can do it quite well, since it's actually a documented format (no reverse-engineering necessary) and seems to be quite succint and useable, while being expandable. Operating system doesn't enter into it except to determine which word processors you can use (and little things like Word:mac and Word for Windows are two completely different products). If WordPerfect is having trouble doing import/export of RTF, it is a WordPerfect bug - everyone else can do it quite well, since it’s actually a documented format (no reverse-engineering necessary) and seems to be quite succint and useable, while being expandable. Operating system doesn’t enter into it except to determine which word processors you can use (and little things like Word:mac and Word for Windows are two completely different products).

]]> by: W^L+ http://cleardefinition.com/oss/abi/blog/2007/01/17/blogger-wonders-about-odf/#comment-7258 Wed, 17 Jan 2007 21:22:23 +0000 http://cleardefinition.com/oss/abi/blog/2007/01/17/blogger-wonders-about-odf/#comment-7258 Except in the case of exchanging with Microsoft products, ODF is a far better choice—in my opinion—than RTF. If exchanging with Microsoft, nearly everyone has reverse-engineered the DOC format, so it is a far better choice than RTF. Try to use RTF to exchange documents between Word and WordPerfect, which both run on Windows operating systems, and you can see fairly large formatting changes between the two. Thus, I would not recommend RTF to someone who might be using MacOSX, Linux, FreeBSD, or whatever else is out there if their software can do a passable job of importing / exporting DOC files. Except in the case of exchanging with Microsoft products, ODF is a far better choice—in my opinion—than RTF. If exchanging with Microsoft, nearly everyone has reverse-engineered the DOC format, so it is a far better choice than RTF.

Try to use RTF to exchange documents between Word and WordPerfect, which both run on Windows operating systems, and you can see fairly large formatting changes between the two. Thus, I would not recommend RTF to someone who might be using MacOSX, Linux, FreeBSD, or whatever else is out there if their software can do a passable job of importing / exporting DOC files.

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