Re: RVF to RTF Issues

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Sergey Tkachenko

Posted: 03/15/2005 17:56:36

RTF allows several different ways for storing the same things (all of them

are "standard" ways described in the RTF specification, but not all of them

can be read by all RTF editors, including Wordpad)

Specifically, there are 2 ways for storing text background

1) as a text background (a normal text attribute)

2) as highlight (a special thing)

TRichView and MS Word can read both of them. TRichView uses (1) for saving,

because (2) has many limitations:

- 15 possible colors only

- MS Word assumes that this is a fixed 15 colors, and Wordpad does not.

There are also 2 ways for storing bullets&numbering:

1) used in Word 6 and Wordpad/RichEdit

2) used in Word97 and newer, and in TRichView.

TRichView and MS Word can read both of them, but use (2) for saving.

You can see the same results when saving bullets by MS Word and them reading

them in Wordpad.

Resume:

I can add an option to store text background as a hightlight (though it can

case problems displaying these colors in MS Word, and it has a limitation of

15 colors).

But I do not plan to change saving of bullets. It's easy to use the way (1)

if only a primitive set of bullets (like one level circle bullets in

Wordpad) is supported, but representation of complex bullets and numbering

is too different.

> I want to use this component but while evaluating it using the demo I

found