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Hiding my identity from Word document files Jim 06-12-2007
Posted by Walter Roberson on June 13, 2007, 10:25 am
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>>
>>>I tried RTF but I hear implementations are not consistent. For my
>>>needs there is not quite enough formatting in the RTF which I get
>>>from my RTF editor, Crypt Edit.

>> I thought you were using word?

>I am using word.

>Seems you may not have read the whole of my posting where you see I am
>replying to someone who asks if I have considered using RTF.

I'm the one who suggested that you consider *saving* your file as RTF,
which is something you can do from MS Word.

I didn't understand the reference to Crypt Edit, or the best I could
make out was that -maybe- you thought that using RTF required you to
use different software.


Posted by Volker Birk on June 24, 2007, 5:32 am
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> Anyway .rtf is the way to go for compatibility and interchange
> of documents without unwanted embedded things.

I don't think so. RTF is good for the job here, but what you describe
reminds me of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDocument

Yours,
VB.
--
"Es muss darauf geachtet werden, dass das Grundgesetz nicht mit Methoden
geschützt wird, die seinem Ziel und seinem Geist zuwider sind."

Gustav Heinemann, "Freimütige Kritik und demokratischer Rechtsstaat"

Posted by Todd H. on June 12, 2007, 4:24 pm
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>
> >>
> >>I need to write some letters for someone else as if the letters
> >>were written only by the other person.
> >>
> >>Until now I have been sending them unformatted text but this means
> >>the other person has to paste it into Word and then lay it all out
> >>and put in all the formatting for empahsis.
> >
> >
> > Perhaps if you save the file as RTF type? That's a text-only
> > format, so you could edit it to review that no trace of you is left
> > in.
> >
> > I don't use Word much; in what little I've done, I think I found
> > that the page size information was not preserved in the RTF file,
> > which required that the page size be changed on the imported file
> > -- but that's trivial compared to the import work they have had to
> > use before.
>
> I tried RTF but I hear implementations are not consistent. For my needs
> there is not quite enough formatting in the RTF which I get from my RTF
> editor, Crypt Edit.

So let me see if I have this straight.

You want something that removes margins font, etc, yet you want it to
have a bunch of formating that isn't available in the RTF format Word
spits out? These seem like conflicting goals to me.

I'm curious what info is or isn't in the .doc format exported by
Openoffice.org's writer program though.


--
Todd H.
http://www.toddh.net/

Posted by Sebastian G. on June 12, 2007, 5:09 pm
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Todd H. wrote:


> You want something that removes margins font, etc,


I'd rather say that he wants something that removes metadata from the
formatting data, e.g. that it's still fat, 10pt, Times New Roman, but does
not belong to the style class "breakfast at Tifanny's".

> I'm curious what info is or isn't in the .doc format exported by
> Openoffice.org's writer program though.

Metadata about formatting for sure. Anyway else it removes everything it
doesn't understand, whereas the rest is exported via the user interface, so
you can change it. It also removes compiled macro code.

Posted by Ronnie on June 13, 2007, 4:36 am
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wrote:

>Todd H. wrote:

>> I'm curious what info is or isn't in the .doc format exported by
>> Openoffice.org's writer program though.
>
>Metadata about formatting for sure. Anyway else it removes everything it
>doesn't understand, whereas the rest is exported via the user interface, so
>you can change it. It also removes compiled macro code.

Sebastian, this was too quick for me to understand.

Is there a reference somewhere describing these aspects in more depth?
I particularly didn't understand 'metadata about formatting', and
neither did I understand quite what the 'rest' is, or what is meant by
exporting via the user interface.


______________
regards,
Ron

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