RE: Abi and RTF standards

From: Dom Lachowicz (doml@appligent.com)
Date: Mon Mar 25 2002 - 14:22:41 EST

  • Next message: Virgil Arrington Jr.: "RE: Abi and RTF standards"

    On Mon, 2002-03-25 at 14:06, Virgil Arrington Jr. wrote:
    > Can I assume then that the bug I filed (2503) concerning Abi not saving the
    > font size code to blank lines in RTF files will not be addressed?

    It will be addressed. The font code size should be saved to all lines,
    and this really is a bug in the RTF export. For example, this also
    happens:

    line 1 (36pt with text)
    line 2 (leave blank, but 36pt)
    line 3 (36pt with text)

    save as RTF. reload and you see 36pt 12pt 36pt. yuck. MSWord uses 10pt
    instead of their own 12pt standard for default font size, so they'd see
    36pt 10pt 36pt. The intended result is 36pt 36pt 36pt. This needs to be
    fixed, eventually.

    I'm willing to compromise on this, because it's not wrong to save the
    default font size to a line, even if it *should be* understood as 12pt
    and NOT 10pt. Is it a nuisance? Maybe, but it won't hurt us at all to do
    this, and it's not incorrect - it's sub-optimal, though.

    Dom



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