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Subject:RE: word or rtf From:"James Jones" <doc-x -at- earthlink -dot- net> To:"'obair'" <obair81 -at- comcast -dot- net> Date:Fri, 2 Jun 2006 09:36:44 -0500
Remember reading an article on the Web a few years ago and I'm not sure that
I'm remembering the details correctly, however it seems that the author was
saying that at the time of the writing , the problem was becoming moot for
most files. But rtf had been preferred for graphics-intensive and
format-laden files (I seem to remember). The article itself was a few years
old.
But I myself have no experience with this topic.
> ----- Original Message ----- From: <obair81 -at- comcast -dot- net>
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>> It has been suggested to me by a translation agency that, coming out
>> of Frame, providing an agency with an RTF instead of a Word file
>> might lessen some issues tied to some formatting and foreign language
>> issues.
>>
>> Can anyone tell me, is this something they have seen?
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