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Re: Word/OpenDoc labels download

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On Feb 7, 9:56 am, Kevin Powick <nos...@spamless.com> wrote:
> On 2011-02-07 08:11:04 -0500, dawn <dawnwolth...@gmail.com> said:
>
> > An html set of labels also has the same issue that pdf's have in that
> > if the user wants to add or change anything with the label, then we
> > have to support those features up front too, rather than the user able
> > to make adjustments in Word.
>
> Why have a dependency on MS Word?  Will every user have it?  Why not
> use RTF?  

I was thinking there was some xml format that was more current than
rtf, but otherwise it sounds reasonable. I included OpenDoc in the
subject because I specifically DO NOT want to assume the user has
Word. Is rtf still where we are on cross-platform rich text?

> It's a lot lighter, pretty much a cross-platform standard.

OK. I don't know why we were on to something else on this front. I
will do some googling around.  Thanks.  --dawn
  
> MS Word will open it, but you don't need MS Word because every copy of
> Windows has the WordPad RTF editor.  Mac comes with TextEdit, and I'm
> sure *nix must have a default RTF editor as well.
>
> For something as simple as labels, I think RTF would be a lot easier to
> work with.
>
> --
> Kevin Powick

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Re: Word/OpenDoc labels download Kevin Powick <nospam@spamless.com> - 2011-02-07 10:56 -0500
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