From: Rhonda Hyslop (0x7ff00025_at_paradox.homeip.net)
Date: Sat Sep 04 2004 - 21:22:26 PDT
* Oliver Brose <oliver.brose_at_t-online.de> [ 2 Sep 2004 15:52]:
> >From: Rhonda Hyslop <0x7ff00025_at_paradox.homeip.net>
>
> >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).
I opened them up in ClarisWorks/AppleWorks, as I recall. I don't own
MSWord and haven't since Word95 for Windows - didn't try it with that
program, but as I sent a set of notes to a friend I'd imagine they
opened fine in Word too. Claris on 7.5 and AppleWorks on 9 or whatever
my husband's laptop ran at the time both worked fine. OpenOffice works
fine too, I just checked :-)
I can't say I've had a word processor that could handle RTF image
objects do it wrong...
> 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?
Can't do it all in one go, not if you have a lot of notes. I've found
that I can get at most a 1MB RTF (not sure how that maps to newton note
size) at once; if I try to export too many notes at once it only exports
the first ones up to the 1MB limit. I think it's a heap limitation on
the part of the newt, because that didn't vary whether I was using the
iBook or the LC575...
For my class notes, I exported them in 1-class, 1-week chunks, which
gave me ~200kb files for the most part, and 12-13 files per class per
term. It takes a long time to convert and export, and you must be
patient. Of course, I think I had some 5Mb (newton-size) of class notes
- three years worth!
-Rhonda
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