Viewing RTFs?

10tklz · 05-07-2010, 12:21 PM

It seems that Docs2go does not support viewing RTFs. Is that correct or am I doing something wrong? How can I read and maybe write to RTF?

kenjennings · 05-07-2010, 12:34 PM

Yes, not opening RTF files surprised me too. I'd figure this would be expected.

robot · 05-08-2010, 05:16 AM

Wrong.
There's ready to use document viewers for e-ink based systems (including RTF). More imortant, they are free and open source. Developers of eDGe should port openink viewers ( http://openinkpot.org ). They support almost every format:

* ePub
* FB2
* HTML, XHTML
* Plain text
* RTF
* PDF
* DjVu
* TCR (Psion compressed text)
* Plucker
* Open E-Book (OEB)
* OpenReader
* ztxt (Weasel)
* Palmdoc (Aportis)
* Mobipocket
* CHM
* xpm

There's no way that eDGe developers will make support for all of those formats on e-ink displays in reasonable time (openink project took 3 years to development bug free software). Or at least eDGe should give us root and api, so we will port it to eDGe by ourself.

10tklz · 05-08-2010, 11:38 PM

I would like to at least be able to read RTFs, nothing fancy.

aidren · 05-10-2010, 02:15 AM

Me, too. Big time. Robot seems to be talking about the ereader side, but, what I want is support for rtf in docs to go, because that was my means of a work around with the inability to export, full function, with notes and annotations. Of course, I can work with a .doc format, but I use an open source office program (neo office), and working with doc just adds another step. One of the reasons I was drawn to the eDGe was because it was 'seemingly' purported to be striving to be open. Having said that, I do realize that 'docs to go' is an extant proprietary resource. But, I'd still like to see entourage working 'more' towards the whole open source 'world'.

05-07-2010, 12:21 PM	#1
10tklz Edge User	Viewing RTFs? It seems that Docs2go does not support viewing RTFs. Is that correct or am I doing something wrong? How can I read and maybe write to RTF?

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05-07-2010, 12:34 PM	#2
kenjennings Edge User	Yes, not opening RTF files surprised me too. I'd figure this would be expected.

05-08-2010, 05:16 AM	#3
robot Edge User	Wrong. There's ready to use document viewers for e-ink based systems (including RTF). More imortant, they are free and open source. Developers of eDGe should port openink viewers ( http://openinkpot.org ). They support almost every format: * ePub * FB2 * HTML, XHTML * Plain text * RTF * PDF * DjVu * TCR (Psion compressed text) * Plucker * Open E-Book (OEB) * OpenReader * ztxt (Weasel) * Palmdoc (Aportis) * Mobipocket * CHM * xpm There's no way that eDGe developers will make support for all of those formats on e-ink displays in reasonable time (openink project took 3 years to development bug free software). Or at least eDGe should give us root and api, so we will port it to eDGe by ourself.

05-08-2010, 11:38 PM	#4
10tklz Edge User	I would like to at least be able to read RTFs, nothing fancy.

05-10-2010, 02:15 AM	#5
aidren Edge User	Me, too. Big time. Robot seems to be talking about the ereader side, but, what I want is support for rtf in docs to go, because that was my means of a work around with the inability to export, full function, with notes and annotations. Of course, I can work with a .doc format, but I use an open source office program (neo office), and working with doc just adds another step. One of the reasons I was drawn to the eDGe was because it was 'seemingly' purported to be striving to be open. Having said that, I do realize that 'docs to go' is an extant proprietary resource. But, I'd still like to see entourage working 'more' towards the whole open source 'world'.

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