Re: OT: Is .RTF an Open Standard?
On Tue, 2002-03-26 at 21:50, dave mallery wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Mar 2002, John F wrote:
>
> > Dave Sherohman wrote:
> >
> > >On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 10:23:34AM -0600, Kent West wrote:
> > >
> > >>I'm trying to educate some users on the dangers of proprietary file
> > >>formats. But to make sure I've got my facts right, I need to ask: Is the
> > >>Rich Text Format (.rtf) an open standard? (In other words, can I say
[snip]
> > I though RTF was actually an IBM invention, and was a response to
> > Adobe's PostScript.
> >
> > I could well be wrong though. I seem to recall that RTF existed in IBM
> > in 1992 anyway.
> >
>
> i havent seen anyone mention XML. both star and open office now use it.
> it is open by default.
AbiWord uses XML, and all the data is "encoded" in text, whereas
OO/SO stores it's data in binary format.
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