

If anything the article point to Microsoft not providing full information on the format resulting in “RTF specifications lack some of the semantic definitions necessary to read, write, and modify documents.” ( Microsoft RTF Specification Nightmare | Diary Products - Hannes Schmidt ). There is nothing in the wikipedia article about TextEdit using a “unnormal” RTF format. Much older Mac word processing application programs such as MacWrite and WriteNow were able to view, edit, and save RTF files as well.”

TextEdit currently (as of July 2009) has limited ability to edit RTF document margins.
APPLE TEXTEDIT CHANGE MARGINS FOR MAC OS
“The default text editor for Mac OS X, TextEdit, can also view, edit and save RTF files as well as RTFD files. When a RTF document is opened in software that does not support the picture type of an inserted picture, such picture is not displayed at all.” Not all of these picture types are supported in all RTF readers. “RTF supports inclusion of JPEG, Portable Network Graphics (PNG), Enhanced Metafile (EMF), Windows Metafile (WMF), Apple PICT, Windows Device-dependent bitmap, Windows Device Independent bitmap and OS/2 Metafile picture types in hexadecimal (the default) or binary format in a RTF file. The provided link only comments regarding Apple or TextEdit are as follows. Is this a quirk of LIbreOffice or am I doing something wrong? Pages keeps the paragraph formatting (the Mac clipboard doesn’t) but (and this is where it gets really weird) if you save the RTF as a doc from Pages and open it in LIbreOffice the paragraph formatting disappears and you get walls of text. ‘You don’t land a Hercules HC-130J on water, you crash it!’ His Colonel’s sole piece of advice on making an emergency water landing bounced around persistently in King’s head as he fought against the controls, struggling to correct how the damn plane kept trying to pull to one side. Is rendered into the following wall of text:Īnd it stretched out on all sides, an endless pane of black glass reaching right to the dim horizon. His Colonel’s sole piece of advice on making an emergency water landing bounced around persistently in King’s head as he fought against the controls, struggling to correct how the damn plane kept trying to pull to one side. ‘You don’t land a Hercules HC-130J on water, you crash it!’

I am having a really weird problem with LIbreOffice opening - The paragraph formating or TextEdit RTFs is not being maintained.Īnd it stretched out on all sides, an endless pane of black glass reaching right to the dim horizon.
