File format

[Guest lost & found]

Please can somebody explain to me in very simple words what is the difference

between:

1- Rich text format

2- HTML

3- PDF

Thank You

[Guest Malke]

Re: File format

 

lost & found wrote:

> Please can somebody explain to me in very simple words what is the

> difference between:

> 1- Rich text format

> 2- HTML

> 3- PDF

> Thank You

 

Simplest words: Google It.

 

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=define+Rich+Text+Format&btnG=Search

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=define+HTML&btnG=Search

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=define+PDF&btnG=Search

 

Compare results.

 

Malke

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[Guest VanguardLH]

Re: File format

 

"lost & found" wrote in

<news:40A51452-15BE-4073-A071-B8CFFDFA90AB@microsoft.com>:

> Please can somebody explain to me in very simple words what is the difference

> between:

> 1- Rich text format

> 2- HTML

> 3- PDF

> Thank You

 

There are no simple words to describe formatting employed within a file.

Either you do want to know the structure for a formatting specification.

 

Adobe claims their PDF specification is publicly available and that

anyone can develop for it (but got scared regarding their revenue for

Acrobat when Microsoft wanted to include it by default in Office 2007 so

they threatened to sue). Supposedly Adobe publishes their PDF

specification.

 

HTML can be researched at http://www.w3.org/.

 

Rich-Text Format is a Microsoft proprietary format. I'm sure if you

become a top-tier partner with Microsoft then they might divulge some

docs for you to get that format's definition.

[Guest VanguardLH]

Re: File format

 

"VanguardLH" wrote in

<news:cuCdnSUojZ4g88jVnZ2dnUVZ_tfinZ2d@comcast.com>:

 

<added the missing line>

> There are no simple words to describe formatting employed within a file.

> Either you do want to know the structure for a formatting specification

or you don't.

 

The vast majority of users don't because it alters nothing of using

those formats. A developer wanting to write an application to support

those documentation formats wouldn't be asking for a "simple words"

response.

[Guest Pete D.]

Re: File format

 

For details see http://www.wotsit.org/default.asp

RTF was a MS format for document interchange between different word

processor programs. It uses a standard of items most WP programs support

such as different fonts, font size, some paragraph formating etc.

 

HTML is a format for internet explorers to read and is designed to provide

rich documents over an internet connection. It has evolved as bandwidth has

increased but originally provided fancy web pages using just text with

formating commands imbeded in the text so more processing was done by the

computer for color, formating of text which was done by the recieving

computer saving amount of information that had to be transmited over the

remote connection. (Very simplified explaination)

 

PDF is a Adobe Propriorty formate designed to transmit fully formated

documents from one computer to another regardless of the platform or OS

using a standardized reader provided by Adobe. Originally it wasn't

designed for the reciever to need to do more than read the document and

print it without losing the format/fonts as they were embeded in the file.

Again, Simplified much.

 

"Malke" <malke@invalid.invalid> wrote in message

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> lost & found wrote:

>

>> Please can somebody explain to me in very simple words what is the

>> difference between:

>> 1- Rich text format

>> 2- HTML

>> 3- PDF

>> Thank You

>

> Simplest words: Google It.

>

> http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=define+Rich+Text+Format&btnG=Search

> http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=define+HTML&btnG=Search

> http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=define+PDF&btnG=Search

>

> Compare results.

>

> Malke

> --

> MS-MVP

> Elephant Boy Computers

> http://www.elephantboycomputers.com

> Don't Panic!

[Guest HeyBub]

Re: File format

 

lost & found wrote:

> Please can somebody explain to me in very simple words what is the

> difference between:

> 1- Rich text format

> 2- HTML

> 3- PDF

> Thank You

 

Why do you want to know?