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Help needed for a project.
Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2005 4:48 pm
by Psychophanta
Hi.
I am making a big document with lots of snippets made in PB and lots of vectorial, mechanical pieces, etc. figures made with paint and others.
I am making it using wordpad, because i want it to be available for any windows without MS-Office.
Perhaps these questions are easy for some of you:
- Are Wordpad (every version W95, W95B, W98, W98SE, etc.) created .rtf files compatible with MS-Word (all versions)?
- How can i put in Wordpad 'links' to local .exe files in order to launch it from wordpad and return to the wordpad document when exiting from the executeable?
Thanksssss!
Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2005 6:11 pm
by blueznl
yeah, rtf = rtf
but why not do it in html or pdf? wouldn't that make more sense?
hotlinks are not possible in rtf afaik, but i am known to be wrong now and again
Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2005 6:34 pm
by thefool
blueznl wrote:yeah, rtf = rtf
but why not do it in html or pdf? wouldn't that make more sense?
hotlinks are not possible in rtf afaik, but i am known to be wrong now and again
Hotlinks arent possible afaik
I would say you should do it in HTML.
However if you dont need hotlinks or so, rtf isnt a too bad choise. Afterall to view HTML requires internet explorer (or firefox), and PDF is not too good as it requires acrobat reader, and its a hell to start on slow machines. I wouldnt NOT choose that for this!
RTF is the best choise, as the richtext dll follows any windows from 95 and up, and if you do not need links.
Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2005 7:50 pm
by Trond
Insert -> Object -> Create from file -> Browse to your exe file
Important: Check the box "Link". Click ok.
Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2005 9:02 pm
by Psychophanta
Thank you guys.
ummmhhh.. that's exactly the answer that i was afraid of hear.
I've never 'touched' html, and i don't like pdf because the reason explained by thefool.
Well, now i am making the apps, and i've almost not started to write the text, so i have some time to decide. But surely i will do it in html.
EDIT: Trond! You are great!!!. I didn't see your post, silly of me!.
It works great. Thank you. I prefer to do it like that instead html. Or in both formats.
Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2005 9:42 pm
by thefool
Good thing i only wrote afaik
I was thinking that you could do it with objects, however skipped the thought.
Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2005 2:19 am
by Brice Manuel
RTF is the best choise, as the richtext dll follows any windows from 95 and up,
Actually 3.1 supported RTF, and even most DOS word processors supported RTF files. I even have a Psion PalmtopPC that I bought in 1991 (still works fine) and it reads and writes RTF files.
and its a hell to start on slow machines.
I recently bought the box set of all the Spider-Man comics on CDROM and had to install the newer version of Adobe Reader. On a 1.4Ghz Athlon with 1GB RAM, the new version of Adobe Reader crawls.
Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2005 5:44 am
by okasvi