Why not export to .rtf?

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RedNoteBook supports multiple export formats - .html, .pdf, latex and .txt. Why not add a commonly used and useful format to the export functions - .rtf?

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VF2NSR (vf2nsr) said :
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Actually rtf is not that common any more also any program that can open an rtf file can open a txt file. All RTF does is incorporate font selection as well as color text, and since you can not change font in rednotebook IMHO it doe snot make sense to do so

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Trey Palmer (trey-palmer) said :
#2

Yet it also supports bullet points and color - 2 things RedNotebook also does.
I'll say this is an answer, doesn't properly solve the problem and is unsatisfying. Not being able to send this to a MSWord, or libre office compatible file makes RedNotebook a bit less useful.

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VF2NSR (vf2nsr) said :
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Firsst off I did not say it solved anything I was answering your question. Lat I knew and I may be wrong Libre Office supports pdf file formats for viewing, are you trying to view the file? Write to the file? Most of the exporting of Rednotebook AFAIK is for the purpose of printing the file not necessarily to modify or edit it As for an answer you will be happy with I am sure that Jendrik the author will respond to you and give you his reasoning as to why it is not included, as a side note please remember that Rednotebook is a windows port of a Linux based app that has been ported over to Windows so not all windows format may be cross platformed

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MyOtheHedgeFox (a-ztech) said :
#4

Hello, everyone!

I would like to second the request to add RTF/OTF export, at least in
its basic form (bullet lists / bold-italic-underlined).
Reading your results in an e-book reader is always nice, and most
Russian readers support RTF filetype.
Besides, you can make a book out of your diary this way, since it eases
the RNB >> DOC transformation.

Jendrik: if you are interested, look how FocusWriter does its export.
I think there was something in Python.

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Thanks for reading this letter,
   Danila "MyOtheHedgeFox" E.

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Jendrik Seipp (jendrikseipp) said :
#5

In fact RTF export has been added to txt2tags (the underlying
RedNotebook markup) and I think I'll include it in some future version.
Unfortunately RTF export is only included in an unreleased txt2tags
version at the moment.

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Erwann (ezorglub) said :
#6

Hello
rednotebook is great, but I think RTF (or ODT ?) export is missing. It would be a more practical solution for exporting and then editing the document, to transfer it for other people for instance. For now I'm using HTLM export, then opening it in libreoffice, correct style, and edit it if needed.

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Jendrik Seipp (jendrikseipp) said :
#7

Thanks for the idea. Since maintaining an additional export target is
quite some work, I think HTML exports will have to do for now.

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Erwann (ezorglub) said :
#8

Ok. Meanwhile I have found a solution by using pandoc (http://pandoc.org/) which can convert directly from txt2tags to odt.

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