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- From: ray@mtl.mit.edu (Ray Ghanbari)
- Subject: Re: In-line graphics (was Re: SoftPC 2.0 or 3.0)
- Message-ID: <1992Aug12.155731.28987@athena.mit.edu>
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- Organization: Massachvsetts Institvte of Technology
- References: <1992Aug12.040333.2209@cubetech.com>
- Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 15:57:31 GMT
- Lines: 36
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- In article <1992Aug12.040333.2209@cubetech.com> andrew@cubetech.com
- (Andrew Loewenstern) writes:
- > In article <1992Aug11.172502.393@prim> prim!dave@germany.eu.net (Dave
- Griffiths) writes:
- > >In article <1992Aug10.132122.16546@athena.mit.edu> ray@mtl.mit.edu
- writes:
- > >>However, it still
- > >>falls to the user community to hold developers accountable (why can't
- I
- > >>copy RTF out of FrameMaker????) and not tolerate applications that do
- not
- > >>integrate well into the environment.
- > >
- > >As for not being able to copy RTF, this is a problem also shared by
- that
- > >other "standard" app, WordPerfect. The reason is that neither program
- uses
- > >the Text object.
- >
- > Who cares "why", they _should_ be supporting the pasteboard.
- > WriteNow, FrameMaker, and WordPerfect are the only 3 NeXTSTEP text
- > processing applications available besides edit, and NONE of them have
- > ANY RTF pboard support. And I'll just kill Glenn if PasteUp doesn't.
- >
-
- This is precisely why we used Concurrence for our docs. It was the only
- way we could generate the RTF(D) we needed for our on-line docs with some
- sort of automatic formatting. Unfortunately, when we put our text into
- Frame for the printed manual, we had to go through and manually apply all
- the appropriate paragraph and character formats. A tremendous pain. Now
- if we could only get the MIF->RTFD filter out of NeXT somehow...
-
- Ray Ghanbari
- Digital Tool Works
- ray@dtw.com
-
-