Re: Docs To Go and Abiword

On Sun, 14 Nov 2004, r coyne wrote:

> Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2004 18:09:39 -0800 (PST)
> From: r coyne <duckingsnofair@yahoo.com>
> To: abiword-user@abisource.com
> Subject: Re: Docs To Go and Abiword
>
>
> Hub wrote:
> >RTF syntax is relax
> enough to allow different way to write files to
> conform to the syntax.

> But someone who is writing an app to run on tiny
> hardware might reasonably decide not to implement the
> full spec, only the part that MS actually uses, since
> that's what they're really concerned about. They
> might, indeed, have little choice; hardware does
> constrain. (So "it's not a bug, it's a feature.")
> Only their advertising is wrong, if they claim to do
> "RTF" when in fact they only do some

Smart programmers write their parsers to ignore unknown information and
should at least partially work with as much as they support in the
scenario you describe.

Any luck getting OpenOffice.org RTF documents to work with Docs to GO?

Unfortunately the abiword developers have done all they can with the
information available to them.

There are some tests you might be able to do to help narrow down the scope
of the problem. If you can find a document that Docs To Go can open and
then run it through abiword and then Docs To Go can no longer open it, it
might be enough to isolate what exactly their importer is choking on.
If this functionality was really important to me I know that is what I
would try and do.

Sincerely

Alan Horkan

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Received on Mon Nov 15 19:57:03 2004