Do You Guys Know if Abiword Can Open RTF files? [Solved]

Hey!!


I am considering installing Abiword on the borrowed laptop I'm using, which only has 15 free GB of space right now, you know, burning it on a CD and then installing it on that laptop, since it has no internet access, but first I need to know if it can open RTF files as those are the files I work with because they're the smallest word-processing files I know about and they don't take a lot of space on my flash drive at all. I am considering converting all my manuscripts to RTF format so I can transfer them to my flash drive and open them on the other computer if I need them. I want to install AbiWord because of the word-count feature it has that Wordpad doesn't have, because it's a small word-processing programs compared to most WP programs I know, and because Word is too large, I think, for a hard drive that only has 15 out of 20 total GB free, and I've already installed it on 2 computers in my house. I haven't uninstalled it from this computer, the first one I installed Word in, because I am waiting to get a new laptop or netbook to uninstall Word from this one and install it on that other new computer. Thanks, and sorry if this question is noob and if my explanation is too complicated. I don't save any of my work on that other computer's hard drive because it's small, and that's why I save all my files on my 4-GB flash drive.


Sincerely
Magali.

Medievalist said:

Short answer: Yes

http://www.abisource.com/help/en-US/info/infoformats.html

As a cautious soul, I'd export / Save As both .rtf and .html, since both are easily converted to formatted files for, well, just about anything.

.rtf is mostly the same everywhere, but if you do any exotic formatting, or care about the specific fonts, it can sometimes do odd things. Footnotes are treated differently in different .rtf definitions; generally though font size, paragraphing, and italics, bold and underline in .rtf transfer and are interpreted correctly.

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Thanks for the info and for the link. I don't do any fancy formatting on RTF files, just the chapter heading and the chapter body, chapter heading slightly bigger than chapter body, and I just write. Example: Chapter heading typed in Times New Roman size 18 and chapter body typed in Times New Roman, size 12.

kuwisdelu said:

Besides what Medievalist said, you really don't have to worry about this too much for your writing. You'd have to save about a thousand novels before it took up a single GB.

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Thanks for your info and your tips. You're stellar, Kuwisdelu. You've helped so much.