Re: [NTLK] RTF driving me crazy

From: Jon Glass (jonglass_at_mac.com)
Date: Tue Mar 12 2002 - 15:30:26 EST


on 3/12/02 4:05 PM, Oliver Brose at oliver.brose_at_t-online.de wrote:

> Please help me! It cannot be that the MS pile of *"%!& does the best job on
> working with my Newton's files! There must be something I am doing wrong
> with AppleWorks, and I have no idea why TextEdit refrains from displaying
> Ink & Pictures. My first guess for the umlauts was that the NCU screws them
> up while exporting, but if so, why can Word display them just fine?
>
> Which program is best for displaying everything *just the way* it looks on
> the Newt?

I think the problem with the umlauts is that you are dealing with Unicode.
My guess is that Word handles the Unicode better than AW does.
Unfortunately, on the Mac, Word is currently about your only option for
dealing with Unicode in a manner anywhere near approaching decently. (Not
one decent, elegant solution yet) I'm guessing that TextEdit doesn't do any
graphics, which is why those are missing, or at least it doesn't handle
graphics in rtf files. Do you have Nisus Writer? Try downloading the latest
demo and see if it does a better job. They keep trying to improve their rtf
support, but it is iffy at best.

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