Re: wildcard question/Xy4 to RTF

[cld@xxxxxxxx (Carl Distefano)]

Reply to note from Bill Troop  Sun, 05 Aug 2001
00:20:10 -0400

> Bill: Why not just use the Word for Word conversion filters?
>
> Because the conversions always seem too complex and to create
> too many unwanted parameters, such as margins, leading, font,
> color etc. etc.; but in truth I haven't tried the WfW filters
> in a long time; maybe they're better than I remember?
> Somewhere I have a CD with the "Adobe File Utilities" --- I
> guess that's the last incarnation? Is there any other way of
> getting them on the web still?

The Hungarian site that used to have them folded. But you can grab
them at http://users.datarealm.com/ammaze/xfer/filters.zip.

For what it's worth, here's what the above-quoted message looks like
after converstion:

{\rtf0\ansi \deff0 {\fonttbl }\linex0 \sbknone \margl1440 \margr1440
\plain \paperh15840 \margb1440 \margt1440 \pard \sl280 \tx720
\tx1440 \tx2160 \tx2880 \tx3600 \tx4320 \tx5040 \tx5760 \tx6480
\tx7200 \tx7920 \tx8640 \tx9360 \tx10080 \tx10800 \tx11520 \tx12240
\tx12960 > Bill: Why not just use the Word for Word conversion
filters?\par
> \par
> Because the conversions always seem too complex and to create\par
> too many unwanted parameters, such as margins, leading, font,\par
> color etc. etc.; but in truth I haven't tried the WfW filters\par
> in a long time; maybe they're better than I remember?\par
> Somewhere I have a CD with the "Adobe File Utilities" --- I\par
> guess that's the last incarnation? Is there any other way of\par
> getting them on the web still? \par
}

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Carl Distefano
cld@xxxxxxxx
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