[softwarelist] Re: RTF Filter at the end of the Universe (RISC OS 32 bit)

  • From: John Cartmell <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: davidpilling@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 15:32:06 +0000 (GMT)

On 19 Jan, Martin Wuerthner <public@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> In message <125ea3a74e.dmw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>           Denys Wells <denyswells@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > Yes, there must be: I've just checked a printout of my test RTF file
> > from Open Office on WinXP, and see each column's header has the text
> > centred *in the cell*, while following rows have the text
> > left-justified in each cell. !TransRTF has clearly recognised this,
> > but by centreing the whole header row on the page rather than by
> > centreing each cell's text within its tab: that might be quite complex
> > to do I imagine.

> Precisely. OvationPro does not do tables, so the vast majority of 
> table layouts cannot be reproduced accurately. The best the filter can 
> do is to approximate it with tabbed text but that only works under 
> very specific (and thus rare) circumstances. In this specific case the 
> filter could do a bit better by defining a special tab ruler with 
> centre align tabs, but that might be a bit over the top.

Best use TableMate which accepts CSV (and other) files and can be dropped into
Ovation Pro as if it were a graphic (it is a sort of Draw file).

Or use Easiwriter! ;-)

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