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bgerszewski@wi.rr.com Guest
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Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 8:15 am Post subject: reading .rtf files |
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I have a mac mini. I use Open Office to view documents. I receive my job assignments via email and they arrive in a .rtf format. I believe the file is made up of a chart or graph or similarly formatted file. When I open the file all the words appear in singular line on the left side of the pages (7 or 8 pages instead of 1).
Will the neooffice download allow me see these files properly?
thanks for any help ...
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Lorinda Captain Mifune
Joined: Jun 20, 2006 Posts: 2051 Location: Midwest, USA
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Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 10:54 am Post subject: |
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I'm not sure than an rtf file can include a chart or a graph. But I could be wrong.
Have you tried opening them in Text Edit?
If your job assignments aren't sensitive in nature, you could post one somewhere and provide the url for one of us to try.
Or, you could download and install NeoOffice and give it a try yourself. |
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RoyFocker Oracle
Joined: Sep 23, 2006 Posts: 218 Location: Rome, Italy
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Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 11:36 am Post subject: |
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I try with a doc made in word2004 and saved on rtf format with:
Images
Graphs
and a "WordArt"
The first come good. The second moves but you can put it where you want. The WordArt DESAPPEAR
Hoping that it helps
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LemonAid The Anomaly
Joined: Nov 21, 2005 Posts: 1285 Location: Witless Protection Program
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Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 5:31 pm Post subject: |
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I'm not sure what you generated the .RTF file with, but the normal definition of .RTF is: Rich TEXT file.
It should include items that change Text (Bold, Underline, etc), line breaks and such. The key word is TEXT. Anything else is an extra ... gift.
Philip ( .RTF is great for moving TEXT between different systems. )
<edit> Wikipedia has a good article about RTF_format:
Quote: | The Rich Text Format (often abbreviated to RTF) is a proprietary document file format developed by Microsoft since 1987 for cross-platform document interchange. Most word processors are able to read and write RTF documents. Unlike most word processing formats, RTF is human-readable.
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aussie149 The Merovingian
Joined: Feb 12, 2005 Posts: 607 Location: Australia
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Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2007 5:32 am Post subject: RTFD |
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Is this perhaps an RTFD formatted document? |
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rays The Anomaly (earlier version)
Joined: Sep 23, 2004 Posts: 475 Location: Geneva, Switzerland
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Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2007 7:49 am Post subject: |
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Hi Robert,
The file you sent me is not standard RTF, in the sense that it contains a frame or frames.
Now, I've done a couple of things with it:
1) It successfully opens under M$ Word 98 running in Mac OS 9 Classic mode.
2) That revealed that the file contained multiple frames which were certainly not generated from an RTF file (which, as others have confirmed, contain only text and basic formatting of text only items).
3) Changing the extension to .html allows you to view the contents of the file. This reveals that the file is being generated from an application called Easy Trip Software Version 3.6. A quick Google search brings-up <http://www.easytrip.net/> as the source and reveals that the latest version is version 3.7a (shortly to be 3..
I didn't have time to delve into the site any deeper but I do suggest you start there to find out what formats are really being exported from this software and even email their tech support.
If it is any consolation, the same mess appears in OpenOffice.org 2.1 on WindowsXP.
When I see the layout in M$ Word 98, it is clear that it is not a format that could be exported successfully to .rtf with any hope of integrity of layout. My advice would be to contact the software developers for advice at this point.
If I can be of further assistance, please let me know. _________________ Ray Saunders
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revsmitty Keymaker
Joined: May 15, 2005 Posts: 94 Location: Iowa, USA
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Posted: Sat Feb 10, 2007 8:24 am Post subject: |
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Ray wrote:
Quote: | The file you sent me is not standard RTF, in the sense that it contains a frame or frames. |
What happens if after you open it you click inside the 'frame' and choose the Table>Convert> Frame to Text?
I've had pretty good success doing that when I copy from an html document to a text document.
Galen |
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