RE: Infoprint Designer, MS Word; a related question

Hi, Eric:

Thanks for the response. I would be very interested in an *.RTF option.

Darrell

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midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 02/14/2007 11:09:57 AM:

Well, I understand that part of the Jakarta POI project includes the
HWPF (Horrible Word Processing Format) but that this particular 
project is standing still.  I think part of the problem is that MS 
changes their documant formats with every release, so these open 
source projects to reverse engineer the MS document flavors get 
stale pretty quickly.

Can you use RTF documents instead of .doc?  Or, with the advent of 
new "open" standards, could you use ODF (OASIS Open Document Format 
for Office Applications) or OOXML (Office Open XML)?  RTF is 
technically a proprietary format, but one that has been adopted 
widely, while the other two are open standards, but may not be fully
supported in older Office products from MS.....

I suspect RTF would be the easiest and best supported approach.

Eric

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