I have a couple of issues with the rtf generator that I can't figure out and thought maybe someone on the forum could help?
a) Styles don't work correctly when using a master document it seems to lose the styles when it merges the multiple rtfs - even if the styles are the same in each of the individual rtf templates being compiled in the master document.
b) If using a
filename field it always breaks when the master document is produced.
c) I can't make a master document generate in landscape.
On the positive side
, since Office 2k7 it seems much easier to create good looking rtf templates.... here's some tips which may be useful:
The approach that I take to creating rtf templates is to first create an rtf template in EA that includes the correct data fields with any tables that are required. I do not worry about sizing, pagination etc. I then export the rtf. I then open the exported rtf MS Word 2k7 then apply the formatting, then save a version of the rtf. Re-open EA and import back the updated version of the rtf that has been modified in Word.
The main improvements I’ve noticed since moving from MS Word 2k3 to 2k7 are:
1. When you format say font type, colour, size and background colour (if in table) in 2k3 often the formatting would restore to some default for the normal style in the EA rtf viewer, but in 2k7 the formatting would more often be interpreted correctly. This saved a great deal of time as there was less rework of the rtf templates
2. Page layout set to A4 works – in 2k3 it always defaulted back to ‘Letter’ size for some reason (& I don't live in USA
)
