The title pretty much sums it up. I've got one story that I went back to take another look at and see if it needs more polishing. Open it up in WordPad, and I find the "center" aligned text is showing up past the 5" line.
Cue freakout. I was sure it was fine before I was forced to replace my now-dead laptop. I've subbed it to at least one market since. Did it look like this?!
Since nothing I did in WordPad managed to solve that issue, I went and opened it in OpenOffice to see if it was fixed. And it looked normal, it even printed as it looked in the print preview (and the print preview looked different from the WordPad version too) so I went ahead and did my clean-up work there, then saved.
The file was 69KB. Compare to the WordPad file, which was 10.
But wait. It gets better. Next step was poking on the internet to see if there were some issues with RTF support in OpenOffice -- turned out the entire format's broken. But there was mention of a program called AbiWord, and someone mentioning it had proper RTF support. And hey, it's freeware. So download that, install, and copy over and make some tweaks to get the page alignment right again, and save.
62KB. And it looks messed up in WordPad.
I have no idea which is the right one. WordPad supposedly was using 1" margins, but its print preview was different from OO's, which did print properly (now I'm wishing I'd tested the WordPad document). And I'd always thought RTFs were supposed to be small, which OO's and AbiWord's output are both definitely not. One seven-page file in RTF format shouldn't be over 15-20KB maximum, should it? How do I know which one's the right one?
Cue freakout. I was sure it was fine before I was forced to replace my now-dead laptop. I've subbed it to at least one market since. Did it look like this?!
Since nothing I did in WordPad managed to solve that issue, I went and opened it in OpenOffice to see if it was fixed. And it looked normal, it even printed as it looked in the print preview (and the print preview looked different from the WordPad version too) so I went ahead and did my clean-up work there, then saved.
The file was 69KB. Compare to the WordPad file, which was 10.
But wait. It gets better. Next step was poking on the internet to see if there were some issues with RTF support in OpenOffice -- turned out the entire format's broken. But there was mention of a program called AbiWord, and someone mentioning it had proper RTF support. And hey, it's freeware. So download that, install, and copy over and make some tweaks to get the page alignment right again, and save.
62KB. And it looks messed up in WordPad.
I have no idea which is the right one. WordPad supposedly was using 1" margins, but its print preview was different from OO's, which did print properly (now I'm wishing I'd tested the WordPad document). And I'd always thought RTFs were supposed to be small, which OO's and AbiWord's output are both definitely not. One seven-page file in RTF format shouldn't be over 15-20KB maximum, should it? How do I know which one's the right one?