On Sep 24, 2004, at 5:39 AM, B Traver wrote:
Is RTF as popular on the Mac as it is in the Windows PC world (where it
is often used as a "common denominator" format between various word
processing programs, a format less precise than PDF but often
friendlier)?
It is now. RTF was next to never used on Mac OS 9, because the only
application that could work with it was Word. AppleWorks may have
imported it, I'm not sure, but basically, there was no free application
that came with the system that used RTF. Now on Mac OS X, TextEdit uses
RTF exclusively for its styled text since Cocoa has RTF capabilities
built-in. I'm not sure how Carbon is supposed to have access to it, but
it'd be pretty cool if RB had it built-in as well. Right now there's no
way to have built-in cross platform styles in a friendly format.
Seth Willits
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