Why Word Viewer?

RTF (Rich Text Format) specification is property of Microsoft. Hence, we suppose that only MS Word and MS Word Viewer are capable to recognize whatever RTF tag.

Word Viewer is Freeware! You can take a look about it in the site of Microsoft and even make the download by there, but be sure you will downloads version 7.1!!!

Other Word Processors are commonly based in WINDOWS / SYSTEM / RICHED20.DLL, which interpretes many RTF tags, but not all.

Word Pad, for example, does not recognizes margin definitions and landscape print.

You must be thinking why not MS Word ? -The reason why is simple, MS Word is much more weight to load than Word Viewer, you need more time to load it, and MS Word from Office XP, for example, does not accept the command line /p used to print automatically. You may make the test, try to open any RTF file from MS-DOS prompt, type: start winword teste.rtf /p

What is command line? -Are parameters sent to the program, is everything you write after the executable program name (.EXE, .COM e .BAT). For TEXTO RICO, the text processor must be able to receive the RTF file name (to open it automatically) and the parameter "/p" (to print it automatically).

If you are running your Clipper application in other platform like Linux, you can use other word processor with Texto Rico instead. Texto Rico is able to work with any RTF word processor you like.