Hi,
as I already stated in the forum, I'm not a big fan of the EA RTF template editor. Why? see here:
1.) It simply doesn't fit to the very neat look&feel of EA. The RTF editor looks like 10years old and maybe it is. But, if it would work, I'd be OK with it.
2.) It is buggy and unpredictable. You have to be very carefull what you do.
- Undo is not supported all time. After adding a new section, Undo is disabled/Undo record is cleared.
- After formatting a field using styles, the field gets corrupted and won't work until you delete it and reinsert.
- Word style won't be used correctly, especially the number style of headings. Sometimes it will be displayed correctly in the editor, but not in the RTF output.
- Using vector lines leads to expanded tables
- Table border widths is not displayed correctly in RTF print preview/PDF output.
- The whole workflow with inserting sections using a list and then inserting field using right click is not very intuitive. You can edit the sections text and corrupt it easily by doing so and the field are not editable.
- Modifying the header & footer is really cumbersome. If want to edit, you have to display the header first (why is that not default?) and then click on Edit Header/Footer. Image you want to modify, and see how it looks on the final generated document and then go back to the template editor, you have to do it all over again because it can't remeber your view settings.
I don't have the 100% solution for these issues, but I don't have to. I can only say that this editor is highly uncomfortable and needs some make-up as well as under-the-hood-tuning.
I'd rather edit some XML as a teplate if the result is predictable than using the WYSIWYG editor that messes around with styles, sections and fields.
Jan