WTF RTF????

[ffutures]

I just noticed that the RTF version of the character sheet was 1.2 MB, where the DOC version was 117 K and the PDF version was 88 K

So I thought... is this a problem with RTF, or is it something stupid that happened when I saved the file from Word?

So I opened it in Open Office, the only good RTF editor I have, and saved it again. And suddenly it's only 188K. Still the biggest of the three, but something I can cope with.

Not sure what the moral is, except that Word sometimes does some VERY strange things...

Comments

[saranjeuhal.livejournal.com]

It's always been a problem with Word saving RTF files, even before Sharepoint was around. Part of it is to do with the RTF specification itself, and also the way that Microsoft saves a lot of metadata inside the file format. Opening up in Wordpad and resaving it was the old trick.

To be honest, I find the new Word DocX format working out well for me, and I like the new version of Word, even if I don't like the way they've botched autosaving.