cannot import a MS word file into field

[Dan Shafer]

On Aug 4, 2005, at 12:50 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:

> Dan Shafer wrote:
>
>> For one thing, Revolution knows very little of styled text fields,  
>> so  it is essentially impossible simply to put Word content into a  
>> Rev  field.
>>
>
> Rev supports a wide variety of the most popular text style  
> attributes. While Rev doesn't read the proprietary Word format  
> directly, it can import styled text as RTF.
>
True, but: (1) RTF support is far from complete; and (2) images in an  
RTF file are ignored by Rev.
>
>> And it is impossible without a huge amount of work to mix images  
>> and  text in a field in Rev. That's what cards are for. You put  
>> text in  fields, images in their own object spaces.
>>
>
> The imageSrc property allows images to be displayed in fields.   
> There are merits to both a card-based and field-based presentation,  
> depending on the needs of the app in question, but both are quite  
> doable.
>
OK, good point. When I said "cards" what I really intended was to say  
don't use a text field. The imageSrc property is, in my mind, a  
kludge hardly worthy of the otherwise excellent quality of the  
Transcript language. Of course, it's also possible I just don't "get"  
it since I'm not a graphics guy.


~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Dan Shafer, Revolution Consultant and Author
http://www.shafermedia.com
Get my book, "Revolution: Software at the Speed of Thought"
 From http://www.revolutionpros.com, Click "My Stuff"