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- From: andrew@cubetech.com (Andrew Loewenstern)
- Subject: Re: In-line graphics (was Re: SoftPC 2.0 or 3.0)
- Message-ID: <1992Aug12.040333.2209@cubetech.com>
- Organization: Cube Technologies, Inc.
- References: <1992Aug9.183918.17665@utstat.uucp> <1992Aug10.132122.16546@athena.mit.edu> <1992Aug11.172502.393@prim>
- Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 04:03:33 GMT
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- 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.
- >>
- >
- >But the users don't have a choice when FrameMaker is something of a
- >standard. Boycotting it will only hurt themselves.
- >
- >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. They must output postscript directly (ugh) thus avoiding
- >the object-oriented inheritance of features like cut-and-paste of rich text.
- >
- >It would be interesting to know *why* they didn't use 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.
-
-
- andrew
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- Andrew Loewenstern | And the end of our exploring
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- | And know the place for the first time." -T.S. Eliot
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