[Leaplist] open office does not save in rtf correctly

[Jim Hartley]

I have problems with RTF all the time, but there is a workaround. I send 
stories to magazines, and they want RTF or DOC files ... even with the 
problems I'd still rather use RTF.

The problem comes when I have a well-formatted ODT file, and I open it 
and then SaveAs RTF. It loses the paragraph formatting after the first 
paragraph. I just have to mark all the text (not the title and stuff at 
the top), do Format->Paragraph, and re-enter the format specs (indent, 
double spaced, etc.) one more time. Then I save, close the file, and 
reopen it. At that point everything is pretty much OK.

I sometimes have trouble with stuff (title, word count, author info) at 
the top of the file. Again, format it IN THE RTF FILE, save, close, and 
open, and it comes out perfect (well, almost, I always seem to get a 
little extra spacing after the top line on the first page - a tolerable 
error).

So if you are going to do RTF, convert to RTF and THEN clean up the 
formatting. You should be able to get it to work ... I don't seem to get 
any complaints from the people I send the files to, and believe me, most 
of these editors are VERY FUSSY!

Jim Hartley

Damien McKenna wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: tom foster
>> Sent: Friday, September 14, 2007 12:05 PM
>> Subject: [Leaplist] open office does not save in rtf correctly
>>
>> If I save a document in open office as rtf, and then open it in
>> anything else, I lose the formatting.  "Anything" includes word,
>> wordpad, abiword, and kword.
> 
> The problem with RTF is that there are different versions of it, there's
> no *one* RTF standard.
> 
> Is there a different format you can use instead?
> 
> 
> Damien
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