RTF Format

[Dan Shafer]

While I use Revolution and not MC, I suspect the RTF code is identical in both. So far, at least, using RTF in Revolution is only marginally successful.

In addition to the fact that the RTFText property of a field supports a relatively minimal subset of RTF coding in general, it does not appear to me to behave correctly even with respect to properties it does claim to support. For example, font settings are clearly not maintained. I have an RTF document which uses Verdana for headings and Palatino for body type but it all shows up sans-serif (Verdana, I suspect) when that file is assigned to the RTFText property of a field.

I also discovered that some fairly important and basic RTF formatting such as bulleted and numbered lists, is also not supported. Vertical spacing is not maintained. I'm sure there are lots of other stuff I didn't get to.

>Don't need a tool...
>
>   put the rtfText of fld 1 into fld 2
>   -- outputs fld 1 as RTF to fld 2
>
>   set the rtfText of fld 1 to myRTFText
>   -- converts RTF to styled text in fld 1
>
>
>Ken Ray
>Sons of Thunder Software
>Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
>Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/
>
>
>> From:     LK Hagen <hagenk at uhd.edu>
>> Organization: UH-Downtown
>> Reply-To: metacard at lists.runrev.com
>> Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 12:38:27 -0500
>> To:     metacard at lists.runrev.com
>> Subject: RTF Format
>> 
>> I remember a few years back that someone had a great tool for reading and
>> writing MC fields to and from rich text format.  Does that ring a bell?
>> Anyone know where I can find it?
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