Re: Writing extremely large RTF or .doc files
Re: Writing extremely large RTF or .doc files
- Subject: Re: Writing extremely large RTF or .doc files
- From: Ken Tozier <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2011 04:08:52 -0400
On Jun 18, 2011, at 3:15 AM, Joar Wingfors wrote:
> That loops back to the original question though, does it not? Ie., if this document is really large, how would he do this HTML+CSS -> RTF conversion?
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HTML documents are directly openable in Word. No conversion necessary. Write all the DB text in chunks to a file. Open it with Word, Text Edtit, whatever, Done. It's really no more difficult than that. Once it's open, it's no more bizarre to save it as a Word or RTF file than it is to open a Word file and save it as RTF. Same end point different starting points is all.
I'm certainly not the last word on this stuff, but having worked with formatted text, professionally, for 25 years, I can definitely say that HTML + CSS is rather elegant compared to Word, RTF, Quark etc as far as text formatting goes. It can't get much better than simple user definable style sheets which you apply to text with just a tag, and your data isn't locked away in some byzantine proprietary format. HTML blows Word away for ease of reuse and blows RTF away for readability. The only weirdness involved in formatting text with HTML is that perhaps you've never thought to do it.
Personally, I wish Word format and RTF had died in the mid 90's. It would have made life much easier for programmers and users alike if HTML + CSS was the text formatting standard
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