Talk:Write

Goals

How do you open an existing document, for example, a text file on a USB drive

Feature Requests

Functionality Test states: " save document" this needs clarification as earlier in the page it states: "no need to ever do a save" Clarification of "save" "keep" and "name" is needed. The WRITE record in the journal is not named and thereby not really saved unless marked as something someone might recognize. Also clicking on WRITE listing in journal does not open document. Explanation of filling out attributes in journal section to make use of tracking write creations is needed.Peidavey 21:53, 26 December 2007 (EST)

Significant problem found: .RTF document format appears to be incompatible between XO Write activity and MacOSX TextEdit.

Documents created as RTF in MacOSX TextEdit cannot be opened on the XO, and documents created as RTF in XO Write cannot be opened on the Mac.

The only way to open an XO RTF on the Mac is to convert the file extension to .TXT on the Mac, at which point all actual formatting is lost, a bunch of "garbage characters" appears (presumably the formatting control characters), and there is a warning message saying do not attempt to edit this document.

There does not appear to be a way to open a Mac RTF on the XO: all I get is a blank Write page.

Documents created as .TXT in XO Write are compatible with .TXT in MacOSX TextEdit, in both directions. While this may be tolerable as a temporary workaround, it is not an acceptable long-term solution.

RTF is supposed to be a cross-platform document standard, so this needs to be fixed. A search of this site for RTF turned up nothing so this may be the first report of this issue.

Also please reply to this posting if possible, advising where further information and/or a fix can be found. Thanks...

(User: g510, not registered; however, one of the first to order an XO)