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by tralam
Mon Aug 10, 2015 7:38 am
Forum: General
Topic: Atlantis' support for the various document formats
Replies: 12
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Thank you, Robert, I added it to my custom install of Atlantis.
by tralam
Fri Jul 17, 2015 8:01 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Atlantis' support for the various document formats
Replies: 12
Views: 19596

If you open “Banner creation.rtf” in MS Word 2007 for example, you’ll notice that only the simple tabbed lines are displayed correctly. The complex arrangements of lines that create actual banners do not display like they do in Atlantis. But most likely they would with a few adjustments to the tab ...
by tralam
Fri Jul 17, 2015 5:16 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Atlantis' support for the various document formats
Replies: 12
Views: 19596

Thanks, Robert, for those files and explanation, plus the link to the templates. I've been going through the site but overlooked that page.

Can I assume that Word and other procs will have no trouble reading such lines?
by tralam
Fri Jul 17, 2015 5:12 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Atlantis' support for the various document formats
Replies: 12
Views: 19596

Thanks, Dale.

RTF is actually stored in an ASCII file and typically images are expanded to base64 text although there is a binary option as well for images so it is rather large compared to a full binary file although zipping it helps for storage purposes.

I'll certainly use Zip or rather 7-Zip ...
by tralam
Fri Jul 17, 2015 2:02 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Atlantis' support for the various document formats
Replies: 12
Views: 19596

Great, thanks Robert.

I did have the thought that .rtf might then be slightly more susceptible to corruption also, as .doc would be. Especially since all included images would also be in binary format in the file, it makes the .rtf file big and thus theoretically more suspect to corruption? I'm re ...
by tralam
Thu Jul 16, 2015 10:20 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Atlantis' support for the various document formats
Replies: 12
Views: 19596

Thank you, Robert, for your helpful reply.

One of the things I understood about .docx is that it could also potentially be a bit more resistant against file corruption issues, when compared to .doc.

As you noticed yourself, it does not matter which format you save a document to in Atlantis if ...
by tralam
Thu Jul 16, 2015 3:26 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Atlantis' support for the various document formats
Replies: 12
Views: 19596

Atlantis' support for the various document formats

Hello everyone,

I've been testing Atlantis off and on for a while now. At first, having used MS Office products and some other suites, I must admit I did not understand very well what Atlantis could do and focused more on limitations with regard to MS office suites, and less on what Atlantis does ...