Re: SA/RTF Font

[Si Wright xywrite4@xxxxxxxx]

Back in January, Carl wrote this incredibly useful macro to give me a one-click conversion from XyWrite files to .rtf in Times Roman.

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All had been going swimmingly until a few days ago, when suddenly the .rtf files converted from XyWrite and attached to (Eudora) email were being automatically  decoded  at the other end as email text (decoding MIME attachments? I can't stop thinking of Marcel Marceau). The gibberish baffled  editors who had never seen .rtf formatting unveiled.

I went back to my old method: opening the XyWritten text in Wordpad and saving as .rtf. That !
 still
 appears in Eudora as an attachment.  I compared the two files and found that they are different.

Here's a XY file converted to .rtf with the macro.

{\rtf1\ansi \deff0 {\fonttbl {\f0\froman times;}
}
{\colortbl;\red0\green0\blue0;\red0\green0\blue127;\red0\green127\blue0;\red0\green127\blue127;\red127\green0\blue0;\red127\green0\blue127;\red127\green127\blue0;\red127\green127\blue127;\red192\green192\blue192;\red0\green0\blue255;\red0\green255\blue0;\red0\green255\blue255;\red255\green0\blue0;\red255\green0\blue255;\red255\green255\blue0;\red255\green255\blue255;}\linex0 \sbknone
\margl1440 \margr1440 \margt1440 \margb1440 \plain \margb1440 \margt1440 \fs24 \f0 \pard \sl280 The rich text gets richer. }

And here's the same text converted with Wordpad.

{\rtf1\ansi\ansicpg1252\deff0{\fonttbl{\f0\froman\fprq2\fcharset0 Times New Roman;}{\f1\fnil\fcharset0 Courier New;}}
{\colortbl ;\red0\green0\blue0;}
{\*\generator Msftedit
 5.41.15.1503;}\viewkind4\uc1\pard\cf1\lang1033\f0\fs24 The rich text gets richer.\cf0\f1\fs20  \par}

Are any of these differences relevant? Have I somehow damaged the filter that the macro was using? Is there a way to make XyWrite call the same filter that Wordpad is using?

I got spoiled with the one-key conversion, and hope to return to it. Any help or pointers toward a solution are appreciated.

Jon Pareles

		
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