Subject: Re: [Bug 1416] - default font size is not saved to RTF files
From: Virgil Arrington Jr. (virgilarrington@hotmail.com)
Date: Tue Jun 12 2001 - 13:03:15 CDT
I received the following message from bugzilla. I tried to reply directly,
but was bounced. So I'm sending it to these lists in hope of being heard.
The problem with saving the default font size to an RTF file is not a "bug"
per se in either MS-Word or AbiWord - it's just a difference between the
two. Word uses a 10 point default font. AbiWord uses 12 point. If AbiWord
wants to be generally accepted, it must find a way to translate its files
into the format used by the most widely used word processor, i.e. MS-Word.
I'm surprised that you would choose not to fix this problem when the problem
is so easily fixed. Simply insert a \fs24 code at the beginning of any
paragraph using the default font. If I change the font size to 14 point,
you insert a \fs28 code into the paragraph using the larger font size. But,
if I change it back to 12 point, instead of inserting a \fs24 code, you
remove all font size coding meaning the document is now at the mercy of
whatever word processor happens to open it.
Other programs (for example, Atlantis) handle this very well by simply
inserting the \fs24 code. It's an easy fix. I implore you to pursue it.
Virgil
>From: bugzilla-daemon@abisource.com
>To: virgilarrington@hotmail.com
>Subject: [Bug 1416] - default font size is not saved to RTF files
>Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 07:25:52 -0500 (CDT)
>
>http://bugzilla.abisource.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1416
>
>hfiguiere@teaser.fr changed:
>
> What |Old Value |New Value
>----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Status|OPEN |QA TO VERIFY
> Resolution| |WONTFIX
>
>
>
>------- Additional Comments From hfiguiere@teaser.fr 2001-06-12 07:25
>-------
>This is a bug in word. According to MSFT own specifications:
>"fsN Font size in half-points (the default is 24)."
>
>This means that Word is messing everything up by using 20 as a default
>value (N
>is in half points)
>
>WONTFIX
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