Subject: Re: Feature suggestion: RTF with .doc extension
From: Paul van der Vlis (paul@vandervlis.nl)
Date: Thu Nov 01 2001 - 02:44:54 CST
Alan Horkan wrote:
> i suggested this before but ive given up on it. it was clearly agreed
> among the developers that users should type the three chars rtf
> themselves, and we could not think of a way around it that did not feel
> like cheating users. You cant argue with best practice.
>
> I think the rename .rtf to .doc hack has been clearly explained in the
> documentation, although im not sure. You dont have to be a developer to
> contribute documentation, clipart, templates, tutorials, marketing.
>
> if abiword is behaving you should be able to override the automatic
> addition of the .doc extension by specifying .doc but writing the name
> into the box in inverted commas
> "filename.rtf"
This is a very good idea. I tested it with Abi 0.9.4.1 and it doesn't
work with quotes (the filename is written with quotes), but it works
without quotes!
So I simply make a file "filename.doc" and save it with the RTF format.
It is not renamed to "filename.doc.rtf" or "filename.rtf" as I would
expect. This is really good.
The only thing I maybe miss, is an option like "save default in ...
format " in the preferences.
> (if it doesn't then its a bug)
> You should also be able to rename a text document as .doc but abiword
> failed me a while back and i have yet to verify it with the latest
> version and file a bug report (a game manual actually did this).
>
> The flaw is not in Abiword, the flaw is that user dont know any better.
> The only solution is education and i will continue to tell people that
> they should rename rtf files with the .doc extension and Microsoft
> windows users will be none the wiser.
>
> 90% of the Microsoft Word documents i get sent never needed to be in
> doc format, if it text then cut and paste it and send me an email (even
> html email is better than .doc).
This is the same for me, but in an office where people are working
together it's different.
> there is some feature to do wit the default extension (and i dont think
> it is the autosave but i may be mistaken) maybe hub can elaborate.
Would be interesting. Not a default extention, but a default format.
> It is highly unlikely that the devopers will implement this feature, but
> perhaps you could convince someone to do it as an unnoficial
> wrapper/plugin (it would simply be just another exporter).
>
> gotta go, im on a dailup connection it costs money.
>
> Sincerely
> Alan Horkan
With regards,
Paul van der Vlis.
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