Hello Tim...

THDW wrote:
> On 15 Jun 2011, at 11:57, Kino wrote:
>> The file converter is buggy. You *may* get something more accurate if 
>> you open such a file in LibreOffice, export it as rtf and open the rtf 
>> in NWP.
> 
> Thanks, K.
> 
> I have Word and I have saved the file from Word in .rtf and even then no 
> joy.
> 
> There is a picture which is not appearing. Absolutely maddening.

RTF file format does not support any kind of inserted pictures in any 
format. When this said, Word's ability of making docs available to any 
other file format is so poor and is one of the reasons I no longer will 
spend any money buying that piece of crap!

I have exactly the same problems when I am making my music catalogs 
where I use NWP. For my own purposes I make them in RTF so it's easy to 
add more data by and by when I get more music transferred to digital 
format. The finished files are then saved as PDF.

Just for fun (deep irony) I opened such a RTF file on my MSO2003 for 
Windows on my XPPro. - Fonts are changed to either Times New Roman or 
Georgia though Word2003 - like NWP - is set to use Arial 12p as default, 
formattings, columns, colors are either gone or mixed up so it's 
impossible to see what belongs to what, - and of course all types of 
inserted graphics are gone except tables.

Then I exported the RTF file as '.doc' file for MSWord [Microsoft Word 
(Binary)] for Windows. This kept the pictures, culumns and most of the 
highlight colorings, but still fonts are changed and background coloring 
totally non-existing when I open this .doc file in Word 2004, Word2008 
for Mac and Word2003 for Windows.

I then tried to open the .doc file in OpenOffice with quite a lot better 
result. Font were changed from Arial 13p (my default in NWP) to Arial 
13,5p in OpenOffice. Margens are pushed, but any other kind of 
formatting as well as pictures are present, so a change in font size, 
rezising margens will put the file back so close to the original as 
possible.

Next 'test' was to export the unsaved NWP file directly as ODT and then 
open it in OpenOffice. Now everything except the margens was kept 
correctly...

I tried something similar making a file using latest MarinerWrite. MW 
uses another RTF engine than both Word for Mac and NWP. But the result 
was the same except that fonts weren't changed.

Making a file using Word2008 Mac and then save in any of it's file 
formats and then open it in Word2003 Win also gives problems with both 
fonts and formatting. - And the same making a file in Word2003 Win and 
open it in Word2008 Mac

Making a file in OpenOffice Mac and saving in any format and then 
re-open it in OpenOffice for Windows or NeoOffice or LibreOffice Mac, 
the file is correctly opened and also shown correctly....

Cheers, Erik Richard

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