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Originally Posted by naravive
Hi Mono,
You seem to speak on behalf of all of us with a lot confidence! As a matter of fact, you're completely wrong: txt and doc functionality is of *basic* importance and not supplementary, for me, and for celtic girl and for probably many others-- as an editor and academic, I receive and have to annotate several hundred pages of doc files each month for my work, and I'd like to do that on an e-ink screen because the lcd hurts my eyes and printing is expensive.
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Hi Narative,
I understand it is important for you, celticgirl and others. And it is your right. If Onyx implements
some annotation features in those formats, good for you. Why not?
I just wanted to point out, that it is
technically impossible to implement certain annotation features in those formats despite good will of Onyx. It simply cannot be implemented by anyone in any reader or software, because those formats do not make it possible. That's all.
I do not know, what you need to do with those docs, but maybe the solution would be to convert txt/doc files to pdf and do the work in this format.
I do it that way. One may use virtual pdf printer (there are free ones for Win, so I expect there should be also ones for Linux, etc.) I "print" doc/txt file using this "printer" and so create a pdf. It's easy and versatile. Less work than to print it on paper.
My experience with doc format is that even Microsoft is not quite often able to display the same file in the same Word version on two different computers the same. Not speaking of different Word versions on different computers. Also 3rd party SW like OpenOffice does not many times show Word doc, like it was created in Word. Knowing that, I seriously doubt Onyx or anyone in the Universe is able to make SW which always displays the doc document
exactly as it was created. For example the text might "float" between pages, the pictures jump to different places or disapear and so on.
If one wants to use
all the annotation features that are available for pdf one must avoid txt/doc formats. Therefore I consider those formats supplementary, as I know they will never be able satisfy my and many other's needs (scrible in text and export scribles with text).
Those issues have nothing to do with M92 or any other Onyx's device ability or disability. Those issues are 'features' of doc and txt formats.
Onyx may implement some annotation features, but you cannot expect
full M92's "pdf like" functionality, as it is just impossible.