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Abiword Trick RTF renamed to DOC
by Alan H on Thursday 28/Aug/2003, @09:13

I should point out that the "Abiword Trick" has good precedent.

Microsoft Wordpad does not export Binary .DOC either, it only exports RTF renamed to .doc

I also recally Wordperfect and Microsoft using the .doc file extension fairly arbitrarily for various formats including Text and RTF.
There are so many version of DOC anyway that quite quickly you need a riguorous file detection algorithm.

While I am here cheerleading for Abiword I may as well mention that it would be really great if KDE users could take a look at making Abiword blend in better with KDE, I am reliably informed that Abiword follows the freedesktop.org icon specification and should be able to use KDE icons when run in KDE.

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