Re: [NTLK] Format of Exported Notes

From: Oliver Brose (oliver.brose_at_t-online.de)
Date: Thu Sep 02 2004 - 15:50:53 PDT


>Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2004 13:34:20 -0700
>From: Rhonda Hyslop <0x7ff00025_at_paradox.homeip.net>
>
>* Dan <dan_at_dbdigitalweb.com> [ 2 Sep 2004 09:13]:

> > >How do
>> > notes get exported? I expect ASCII text, but then how does it deal with
>> > shapes and such. Is there, I hope, but doubt, a way to export notes as
>> > .PDF or .PS files?
>>
>> You can export it as RTF or txt formats. The RTF can contain images
>> (like shapes). And as far as PDF or PS formats, I don't know of anyway.
>> Other than to export to RTF then make a PDF out of it.
>
>Exporting as RTF works very well. I took all my class notes for a couple
>of years on the newton, and they were about as complicated and hard to
>export as you can get (IMO) - ink text inline

Rhonda, what do you use to read those RTF-files?
My experiments with RTFs created through NCU had mixed and rather underwhelming results. The only thing that was able to display them (them being the horror notes with all ink, shapes & text) halfway properly was MSWord98 in OS8.6/9 - the irony! AppleWorks and basically everything else would ignore ink & shapes, and so does JournalSync today (great thing otherwise).
Sometimes, when I get my paranoia, I feel a strong desire for an app that will take all my Notes off the Newt in one go and then turn them into RTF or PDF - WITH all ink & shapes intact. Is this even possible?

Oliver :)

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