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Josh:
RTF is still a file format? Didn't that die with windows 95?

fenixproductions:
hey!  Don't leave me hanging man!  What do you use for an rtf editor?  I have NEVER found a good specific rtf editor.  Please, tell.-superboyac (February 21, 2011, 07:15 PM)
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QJot?

Paul Keith:
Anyone got any good suggestions re a better word processor?

I'm sure you're aware of Open Office so....

I've being using Jarte (http://www.jarte.com/) a lot lately just because it's minimalist and that appeals to me. It's actually built off of WordPad. It's a weird interface and probably won't appeal to everyone, but for text editing it works fine.

AbiWord (http://www.abisource.com/) is probably the most popular of the "alt.word" programs besides OO.o

Google Docs (http://docs.google.com/?pli=1), ZoHo (http://www.zoho.com/), ThinkFree (http://www.thinkfree.com/), AjaxWrite (http://www.ajaxlaunch.com/ajaxwrite/), gOffice (http://goffice.com/) & BuzzWord (https://buzzword.acrobat.com/) are all online word procs that you can access from anywhere (but can't run offline...well Think Free has an offline version but it costs).

If you really want to go minimalist you can try Dark Room (http://they.misled.us/dark-room) which is text and nothing but text (full screen), there is also JDarkRoom (http://www.codealchemists.com/jdarkroom/) which is similar but java based.

Rough Draft (http://www.salsbury.f2s.com/rd_overview.htm) has features targetted specifically at "writers" (novelists, screenplayers etc).

Another super light option is Atlantis Nova (http://www.download.com/Atlantis-Nova/3000-2079_4-10634944.html) which is a free version of the shareware Atlantis Word Processor (http://www.atlantiswordprocessor.com/en/)

qjot (http://www.xtort.net/xtort-software/qjot/) & UltraPad (http://www.download.com/Ultra-Pad/3000-2079_4-10741809.html) are beefed up versions of WordPad.

Going the other way IBM Lotus Symphony (http://symphony.lotus.com/software/lotus/symphony/home.jspa) is a full blown suite.

You can download a free version of Star Office 8 (http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2007/08/google-pack-adds-staroffice.html) via Google Pack and there are still some downloads of Star Office 5.2 (http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/staroffice/5.2/win32/) floating around the net. Star Office is where Open Office got it's code base.

EasyOffice (http://easyoffice-freeware.en.softonic.com/) got really good reviews from Maximum magazine and has a crap load of additional features.

Edit: It appears that EasyOffice has been replaced by "The ONE suite" and is no longer free.

A Chinese company has an MS Office competitor called Kingsoft Office (http://phanmem.dec.vn/ProductDetails.aspx?ProductID=23)

Last but not least don't forget Tiny USB Office (http://tiny-usb-office.en.softonic.com/) (there is also a portable version of Open Office).
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Source: http://www.circvsmaximvs.com/showthread.php?t=43727

MilesAhead:
To me Windows7 Wordpad is totally useless for that reason. I use another editor for .rtf files.
-MilesAhead (February 21, 2011, 03:35 PM)
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hey!  Don't leave me hanging man!  What do you use for an rtf editor?  I have NEVER found a good specific rtf editor.  Please, tell.
-superboyac (February 21, 2011, 07:15 PM)
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I've only used it on occasion so I don't know how it will bear up under heavy usage.  Atlantis Nova is what it says. It gives this for home page:

http://www.atlantiswordprocessor.com/en/

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