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svn commit: r616191 - /xmlgraphics/fop/trunk/src/documentation/content/xdocs/trunk/output.xml

Author: jeremias
Date: Mon Jan 28 23:30:08 2008
New Revision: 616191

URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=616191&view=rev
Log:
A more detailed comment on RTF output explaining that RTF has limitations besides the incomplete implementation on the FOP side.

Modified:
    xmlgraphics/fop/trunk/src/documentation/content/xdocs/trunk/output.xml

Modified: xmlgraphics/fop/trunk/src/documentation/content/xdocs/trunk/output.xml
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/xmlgraphics/fop/trunk/src/documentation/content/xdocs/trunk/output.xml?rev=616191&r1=616190&r2=616191&view=diff
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--- xmlgraphics/fop/trunk/src/documentation/content/xdocs/trunk/output.xml (original)
+++ xmlgraphics/fop/trunk/src/documentation/content/xdocs/trunk/output.xml Mon Jan 28 23:30:08 2008
@@ -661,8 +661,14 @@
   <p>
     JFOR, an open source XSL-FO to RTF converter has been integrated into Apache FOP.
     This will create an RTF (rich text format) document that will
-    attempt to contain as much information from the fo document as
-    possible. The RTF output follows Microsoft's RTF specifications
+    attempt to contain as much information from the XSL-FO document as
+    possible. It should be noted that is not possible (due to RTF's limitations) to map all
+    XSL-FO features to RTF. For complex documents, the RTF output will never reach the feature
+    level from PDF, for example. Thus, using RTF output is only recommended for simple documents
+    such as letters.
+  </p>
+  <p>
+    The RTF output follows Microsoft's RTF specifications
     and produces best results on Microsoft Word.
   </p>
   <note>RTF output is currently unmaintained and lacks many features compared to other output



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