![]() Gordon's Tech: An RTF surprise: 850 KB to 40 MB 10/2007.My comment on iPhoto is poignant given what Apple did to iPhoto and Aperture.) 2/2008 DOC (.doc sort of died I guess, in favor of. Gordon's Notes: Word file formats: the Nisus achievement and a gentle wish for.There doesn’t seem to be a way in Yosemite, secret or public, to make TextEdit use. If you create a new document in TextEdit, then hit cmd-opt-s, you can specify docx and save. Meanwhile geeks are using plaintext and markdown. docx is our de facto native document file format the heir to the dreams of RTF and OpenDocument and many before Shouldn’t there at least have been a eulogy? RTF only lives on in TextEdit because it’s been baked into OS X since time immemorial - but not iOS. ( Nisus Writer still uses RTF as a native file format. I’ve been unable to find an obituary - it simply passed from the scene. ![]() The short answer is that RTF died - sometime between 20. So I started asking what was up with RTF. Google Drive will display RTF contents, and convert RTF to Google Doc, but since none of my iPhone apps supported RTF I couldn’t use an app extension to open those files. That’s how, rather late to the game, I realized that nothing on my iPhone would work with RTF. Pages is an act of desperation, and until recently Word for Mac was a lousy product, so I started using TextEdit as a document editor because its default file format is RTF. I’m not using Wintel these days, so I was looking for something other than plain text for my Mac document work. In practice I didn’t do much wordprocessing on my Macs, I did most of my writing in Mail.app, MarsEdit and Google Docs. I wanted a Mac native OpenDocument compatible word processor, but that didn’t happen (remember when the EU was going to make OpendDocument work?). That also rules out Pages and AppleWorks. I don't care if it's the second coming of WordPerfect, it has a stupid proprietary file format. That ruled out Mellel and, sadly, AbiWord. I cannot abide yet another file format that will strand my data. Practically that means RTF, RTFD or OpenOffice. Gordon's Tech: Nisus Writer Express: My Review Nine years ago, when I was looking for a decent word processor (now that’s an old word, almost as obsolete as typewriter) for OS X I had a list of requirements.
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