Warning when documents contain unsupported elements
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janniklindquist
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Warning when documents contain unsupported elements
Whenever someone send me a .doc-file, I am currently very reluctant to open it in Atlantis as elements in the document that is not supported by Atlantis - for example, comments - will very likely vanish if I edit the file in Atlantis. Would it be possible to add some kind of warning telling me that the document I am trying to open in Atlantis contains elements that is not supported by Atlantis?
It would be hardly possible to have any complete solution for this problem. Strictly speaking, every time you resave a document in some word processor, you lose some components (data) of the original document if this document was not previously composed in this version of this word processor. This applies to any word processor. But the problem is not that you would have warnings in too many cases. The RTF and DOC are extendable document formats. When opening documents, any RTF or DOC reader (I mean a word processing software) is supposed to ignore (skip) any information (/tags/components) it does not support or understand. New components are constantly added to the document specifications. It is impossible to know which components will be introduced in the future.
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janniklindquist
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I guess a workaround could be simply to look at the styles applied in a document before attempting to edit it. If the document contains unfamiliar styles (say, "Annotation Text"), one should not edit it in Atlantis if the element in question is important.admin wrote:It would be hardly possible to have any complete solution for this problem. Strictly speaking, every time you resave a document in some word processor, you lose some components (data) of the original document if this document was not previously composed in this version of this word processor. This applies to any word processor. But the problem is not that you would have warnings in too many cases. The RTF and DOC are extendable document formats. When opening documents, any RTF or DOC reader (I mean a word processing software) is supposed to ignore (skip) any information (/tags/components) it does not support or understand. New components are constantly added to the document specifications. It is impossible to know which components will be introduced in the future.