From: Robert Cowham Date: 2002-08-23T17:57:58+09:00 Subject: Re: Win32 Scripting Sean Middleditch wrote in news:1030041679.23861.36.camel@smiddle.civic.twp.ypsilanti.mi.us: > On Thu, 2002-08-22 at 14:29, Hal E. Fulton wrote: > >> Sorry I can't comment on the technique you want... but I >> thought I'd comment on one thing just in case it was an >> issue. >> >> My understanding is probably flawed, but I thought that >> RTF (though touted as an open standard) was really a >> Microsoftism that was intimately tied to the "latest" >> implementation of MS Word. >> >> Microsoft (perhaps even worse than IBM) thinks that >> everything they do is a standard. >> >> Of course, every standard originates somewhere. PDF comes >> from Adobe, though it may arguably be more open. >> >> There's always XHTML; what could be more open than that? >> But it may not be what you need. >> >> Now pardon me while I go back to my paperwork for >> patenting the ASCII character set. > > Um, dunno what to say; RTF works perfectly, and is quite documented. > I can find more complete RTF readers/editors than I can PDF ones (I > can't name a single free PDF reader that handles all PDF documents > perfectly, especially when you get into embedded forms and the like.) > > The problem with XHTML/HTML is simply lack of support across the > board. Sure, a lot of Open Source editors handle it well, but that's > not true for the popular suites in many cases. On the other hand, if > I can get a script that does what I want, I may just as well put up > the documents in multiple formats (RTF, PDF, XHTML, blah, and so on), > which would be nice as well. > One thing to watch out for is that any graphics inside an RTF file can bump the size of the doc from a few tens of k to a mebagyte very easily. ------------- Robert Cowham