Re: Advantages of RVF vs RTF?

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Jim Maguire

Posted: 05/11/2005 20:48:33

Thanks, that helps.

"Sergey Tkachenko" <[email protected]> wrote in message

> Advantages of RVF:

> - it's a native format of TRichView, it's possible to save and load

> documents to RVF without changes;

> - it's more compact, and saving and loading is faster

> Advantages of RTF:

> - can be read by other applications

> Not all TRichView document properties can be saved to RTF.

> For example, RTF supports only a limited set of graphic formats (bitmaps,

> metafiles, png, jpeg). You cannot save, for example, gif, to RTF without

> converting it to another graphic format (and gif animation will be lost).

> Table and cell background images cannot be saved to RTF. Table color (not

> cell colors) and some other properties too. Sets of paragraph borders in

> RTF and in TRichView are not completely the same, so they are converted to

> the most similar one, and so on.

> TRichView cannot save inserted controls in RTF.

> Imagelist pictures ("bullets" and "hotspots") are converted to bitmaps or

> metafiles when saving to RTF.

> Generally, I recommend to use RVF as internal file format, and RTF if you

> need to export data to other applications.

>> I have a couple apps already in place that store the documents in RTF

> format

>> in a database table and have just converted to RichViewEdit1 using

>> LoadRTFFromStream and SaveRTFToStream and just wonder if their will be

>> any

>> feature of RichViewEdit that I won't be able to use.

>> I just started using RichViewEdit and have a full blown editor that

>> rivals

>> much of MS Word in just a few days! RichViewEdit is awesome!