Editor to do simple formatting + embed images?

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Sundog

I am using Wordpad for info files that are lightly formatted - bold, italic,
color,
a few fonts, and embedded images. In Wordpad, it seems they must be .bmp,
which
leads to very large files.

I need an editor that does these things but allows me to drop in jpegs or
gifs, just as I
can drop bmp images in Wordpad. No text wrapping of images is needed.

I know HTML can do all this and much more, but it's too slow and cumbersome.

What other options are available?

TIA

Sd
 
Sundog said:
I need an editor that does these things but allows me to drop in jpegs or
gifs, just as I
can drop bmp images in Wordpad. No text wrapping of images is needed.
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I'm not a programmer but according to Marek Jedlinski, creator of Keynote,
one of the drawbacks of RTF is that it has no ability to store jpegs and
other compressed formats. These are all converted to BMPformat when you save
a file so you can't avoid the large file sizes with graphics and RTF.

You are probably best to look for an RTF editor that has an export to HTML
option. I don't know if there are any freeware ones out there. Keynote has
this ability, but I'm unsure if the exported graphic retains it's original
format, or if it is converted to BMP. Try it out.

Alternately, RTF has the ability to call up external files. Save your
graphics in some sort of more obscure format, then reference it via a link
in your RTF article. Associate the obscure format with a simple viewer such
as Irfanview so that whenever you click the link, up pops Irfanview with the
graphic. This way you save your associations for JPG or BMP with your main
graphic apps, whatever they may be. . .

For all the bother, you might be best to use a simple HTML WYSIWYG editor to
do the job.
 
-½cut said:
Sundog wrote in

Steady on! This is ACF!

If you can't do it with CryptEdit or with OOo's word processor
(http://www.openoffice.org/) then it's probably not a word processor you
need.
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CryptEdit is more than I need.

Huge thanks again for your help. Your knowledge of programs is prodigous.
Congratulations!

Enjoy the weekend :-)

Sd
 
Sundog said:
CryptEdit is more than I need.

Huge thanks again for your help. Your knowledge of programs is prodigous.
Congratulations!

Enjoy the weekend :-)

Sd
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Hello DoubleCut :-)

I have been using CryptEdit for a couple of weeks now and find it very good,
apart from a few things:
1 I find the search facility much like Wordpad's - a bit flaky.
2 I accidentally opened a second preview page twice and it became so
messy that I had to kill the prog. each time.
3 I truly miss the right click to copy and cut. It's very labourious
without it.

I played with PolyEdit and find none of these problems.

Thanks again, though. Both progs are great finds.

Enjoy the weekend :-)

Sd.
 
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