Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: can I make Libre default to save as .rtf

On 11/22/2011 05:34 AM, Pedro wrote:
> doug-2 wrote
> > AFAIK, Microsoft can read rtf.  Two people whom I recently sent odf to
> > said they
> > couldn't read it.  I'm told by people familiar with MS Word that not all
> > .doc files
> > are compatible, there having been a change somewhere along about 1998 or
> > so.
> > (I don't use anything Microsoft when I can avoid it; I don't need the
> > viruses.)
> > If someone know that MS can _not_ read rtf, then please advise.
> MS Office can indeed read RTF but currently LibreOffice has several problems
> with RTF import and export. In any case as mentioned by other users RTF is
> modified by MS from version to version and therefore it is not guaranteed to
> look the same in other editors...
> http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/LO-3-4-3-Writer-cannot-handle-RTF-document-tt3485447.html#a3487090
> http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/template/NamlServlet.jtp?macro=search_page&node=1639498&query=RTF
>
> On the other hand the DOC format has other problems (namely it can carry
> infectious macros) and some companies avoid them as exchange format...
>
> Bottomline: if your document doesn't need editing, send PDF, if formatting
> is important send DOC, if content and safety is more important send RTF.
>
> I'm afraid there is no perfect answer or solution :)
>
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This is a reasonable and reasoned comment.  I'm only sending and 
receiving simple text.
If I wanted to do anything serious, I would go to Windows and use 
WordPerfect, which I
believe is the best word processor around.  I wish someone would take 
the old Corel Linux
version and update it so it could be installed on a modern system.  In 
the meantime, I
use Linux whenever I can, so as to avoid the malware problems of Windows.

--doug

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