Mono,
I don't think anyone's expecting a display of the document "exactly" the way it's created, or anything else that, as you point out, even MS Word cannot deliver. All one wants is to be able to highlight and annotate word documents, rtf and txt files as well,
without the tedious extra step of having to print to pdf each time, which, among other things, leaves 2 copies of each text in my laptop.
Now, as I understand it, we'll never be able to scribble on Epubs either, right? Because these things also morph based on different factors? So why not we just say, "give doc, rtf and txt the same functionality we want for Epubs"?
My point was not to ask the Boox developing team to work miracles, change water to wine etc, but just the opposite: annotation/highlighting/editing of doc files seems already within the reach of open office writer and other open source programs-- so why not just do it to the extent possible, to make Onyx's boast of being able to handle all these formats a meaningful one?
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Originally Posted by Mono
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.
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