| pap or doc? [Beitrag #10715] |
So, 08 Juli 2012 15:43  |
simpleman
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For years I have been saving all my Papyrus documents in the .pap format. Now I am considering to start saving them in the .doc format, for the sake of compatibility. Still I hesitate, because I somehow suspect there may be some advantage of using the native .pap format. So, my question is, will I loose anything if I switch to .doc, for example in speed, stability, functionality? Does Papyrus work best in its native .pap format, or can I just as well use the .doc format? What, actually, is the difference (apart from compatibility)?
Thanks!
simpleman
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| Re: pap or doc? [Beitrag #10724 ist eine Antwort auf Beitrag #10715] |
Mo, 09 Juli 2012 12:38  |
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Hello, simpleman.
The best thing to do is – as usual – try yourself:
Export some of your (preferably more complex) documents to *.doc and view them in other apps like MS or Libre Office as well as in Papyrus itself.
As a rule line- and letterspacing may be interpreted in different fashions, Rich Text Format (which is the actual format Papyrus creates when it writes into *.doc) does not allow for manipulation of letterwidth. Graphic elements like textboxes or lines and even tables may change their looks and relative positions to a great extent or get lost anyway in the *.rtf.
Wether you lose advantages of *.pap depends on how much you have (over-) used specific features of Papyrus up to now. Using a lot of Papyrus' dtp-features will most likely result in a mess when you save a *.doc, mess that will even show when you reload it into Papyrus.
One big question ist the version of *.doc your version of Papyrus produces. As even new versions of MS-Word are only partially compatible to their predecessors.
You won't lose much speed in saving documents (but you may lose work speed in cleaning up the mess).
Papyrus won't become unstable by writing *.doc and I have not yet witnessed an instant where it could not read a *.doc that had been created by Papyrus or crashed while trying.
You will lose functionality if you are used to using thinks like letterwidth manipulation, graphic elements or tables without visible cellborders.
Thus, all in all, YES, Papyrus works best in its native *.pap (otherwise and especially with MS-Word going XML ROM would have switched over to a format that would be nearer to *.docx)
Pap.Autor (5.15), Pap.Office 2008 (13.07; lebenswichtig f. ältere Dokk. mit Stil- & Absatzvorll.)
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| Re: pap or doc? [Beitrag #10731 ist eine Antwort auf Beitrag #10728] |
Mi, 11 Juli 2012 12:01 |
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And I forgot:
Tables in Papyrus are based on graphic "text objects". That's different from most other document formats. While Papyrus somehow manages to transport simple tables into RTF, exporting and reimporting will not only lose or mess up border attributes, but cellspanning is as a rule lost between the formats, which often makes tables unreadable. And if you use text and paragraph styles the text styles will usually get lost and the attributes turned into immediate.
Pap.Autor (5.15), Pap.Office 2008 (13.07; lebenswichtig f. ältere Dokk. mit Stil- & Absatzvorll.)
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| Re: pap or doc? [Beitrag #10766 ist eine Antwort auf Beitrag #10715] |
Mo, 16 Juli 2012 10:31 |
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Having done some experimenting I find that Papyrus, apart from exporting, seems to handle everthing as excellently in doc-format as in pap-format. There is one thing to remember though, if you password protect in .doc mode, it seems that the password protection is lost when you open that document in another word processor. That decides it for me, so I stay with the .pap format. And I am fully satisfied with that.
simpleman
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