Programming Techniques > RTF - Rich Text Format

[Professional Edition and above]

Features of VPE

•Version independent and error tolerant RTF parser. This means: no termination, if unknown or erroneous formats are processed, instead they are ignored and skipped until the next known keyword is found.

•Any font-types, -sizes and -attributes (bold, italic, underlined, strikeout, super- subscript) can be used even in a single line or word

•Text- and background color can be set for each letter

•unlimited number of paragraphs (only limited by available memory)

•Automatic text break over multiple pages

The following attributes can be set separately for each paragraph:

•Text alignment (left, right, centered or justified)

•Space before and after a paragraph

•Space between lines

•Default-Tab positions

•Individual tab positions

•Hanging indent

•left and right indent

VPE is not able to process style-sheets, auto-bulleting or numbering itself, but it manages correctly style-sheets, bulleting and numbering emitted for example by Word or AmiPro, which results in a correct representation of:

•Headlines, and numbered paragraphs of any kind

•Bulleted-Lists

Important Feature!

VPE processes the three most important RTF paragraph styles, to have the best control over the behavior when automatic page breaks occur:

Keep paragraph intact. A page break may not occur between the lines of a paragraph. Instead, the whole paragraph is moved to the next page.

Keep paragraph with the next paragraph. A page break may not occur between the following paragraphs. Instead, the paragraphs are moved to the next page.

Paragraph control. A page break may not occur, if only the first line of a paragraph would remain on the current page, or if only the last line of a paragraph would be placed on the next page.

RTF Properties Not Supported by VPE

•OLE objects

•Cross References

•Table of Contents, Index

•Embedded Images

•Tables

•Right-, center and decimal aligned tabs

•Headers, Footers, Footnotes

•Auto numbering / auto bulleting, style-sheets