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From: chuq@plaid.Sun.COM (Chuq Von Rospach)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: Rich Text Format -- where can I get a spec?
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Date: 24 Mar 88 00:33:35 GMT
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>I have been looking into document interchange formats.  Recently I ran into
>a reference to a "Rich Text Format" invented by Microsoft.

>Where can I get a spec for this format?  I'll appreciate any info (even
>rumor (-: ) that you can send.

Write to Microsoft's Rich Text group, at company headquarters (I don't have
the address handy). They'll send you a copy. I got one a while back (well,
actually, I got half of one -- it was one side of a two sided copy. Talk
about QA problems!) and it looks pretty neat. One REAL nice thing about this
is that you can take a text only application, like HyperCard, and teach it
to output a file that can be read into Word in a formatted form, so you can
(indirectly) do typeface styles. Neat stuff. 


Chuq Von Rospach			chuq@sun.COM		Delphi: CHUQ

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