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FieryPantone
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August 6, 2020
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unexpectedly slow export to .rtf

  • August 6, 2020
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Hoping of course to persuade some colleagues this is not the way to go, I'm checking the results of Save as .rtf. The snag so far is that even a single page with four lines of text is taking several minutes to save. Not a problem in itself, but I'm curious – have other people noticed the same thing? FM19, Windows 7.0 on corporate life-support …

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FieryPantoneAuthor
Legend
August 12, 2020

Interesting idea … but the results, at least for my documents, are unusable: impossible to read, and no styles. The .rtf results, on the other hand, are pretty respectable. I'll make a pitcher of iced tea and settle down to watch the busy cursor :-}

Hezy A
Hezy A
Inspiring
August 6, 2020

What is the aim?

 

If I want files in Word, I save as PDF and then Export to Word.

 

Save as rtf never seemed to work well

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Winfried RengCommunity Expert
Community Expert
August 13, 2020

Hi,

 

The RTF export was greatly improved in the last FM versions.

I do not know why your export takes so long. No. I had not noticed this.

Does your FM file have any graphics? Did you hide these with View | Options? Does this make any difference?

You might send me your FM file as a personal message. (Click on my name above this post. Then you will get a new page with a button to send a personal message.) Then I would check, if they take equally long on my PC.

 

Best regards

 

Winfried

Hezy A
Hezy A
Inspiring
August 13, 2020

Thanks for the update about improved export.

 

However, if you want to send a whole book for review or comments in Word, do you have to export each chapter separately?

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