<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 10:34 PM, aaron <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:aaron@pd.org">aaron@pd.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Open Office will deal with rtf.<br>
<br>
A lot of web browsers will accept it too.<br>
<br>
Gmail uses it for their "fancy" formatted<br>
email option.<br>
<br>
It was just a Mafia$oft attempt to undermine<br>
HTML formatting with their own published<br>
sub-standard.</blockquote><div><br>-GONG- !!<br><br>RTF was Microsofts answer to WordPerfect's document format being closed. They wanted to get a leg up in the office suite market and couldn't get moving (as Word was an "also ran" at that time and Word Perfect was 95:1 market share).<br>
<br>RTF succeeded wildly and Microsoft gained much traction in thatmarket. So they had to slowly get rid of RTF (which I think got the "standard" stamp of approval at one point) as other word processing competitors began to use it. So now we have the 4 bazillion versions of .doc, .docx mess and Word barely can export to RTF any more.<br>
<br>Yay! ASCII !<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br>
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peace<br>
<font color="#888888">aaron<br>
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On 2008, Nov, 25, , at 10:15 PM, Sean wrote:<br>
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> I'm running FC7 with all the normal aps. Just got a file in<br>
> rtf format (Rich Text Format?). OO and Scribus can't deal with<br>
> it. Suggestions would be helpful.<br>
><br>
> Sean<br>
><br>
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