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# RTF Pocket Guide 1st Edition

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    necessary preface to MS RTF Specs
  

*by C***N on Reviewed in the United States on August 7, 2003*

RTF Pocket Guide is a slim volumn, but its size belies the wealth of explanation it contains. Even a cursory reading will leave you with a much better understanding of something almost all programmers know a little about....(Parenthetically, I like topic-specific computer books, O'Reilly's Pocket Guides and Wrox's Handbooks).The book's stated intent is to offer an introduction to Rich Text Format, and is a valuable preface to Microsoft's Rich Text Format (RTF) Specification. It does a good job of that, offering both analysis and caveats.Now, if I don't offer a criticism or two this post will sound like it was done by the Marketing Department.1. I'd like to see the Perl code in the addendums translated into C# or VB. That probably would make it more accessible to more users.2. I wish the chapter on section breaks were fuller than it is. (Probably not a big deal for most programmers.)I'd strongly recommend this book for any programmer needing to work with RTF files.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Really good content  and very poor editing
  

*by R***R on Reviewed in the United States on August 12, 2005*

RTF Pocket Guide is an extremely useful guide to RTF and makes for much better and faster reading than Microsoft's RTF specs. As the book itself points out, it is an introductory guide and does not discuss parsing RTF documents as well as it does creating them. It gave me the information I needed to create programs to write database data out as RTF and certainly does a great job of explaining syntax and constructs.As mentioned in other reviews, however, the editing for the July 2003 first edition is simply awful. A number of obvious errors exist in the initial sections. The overall content is so good that these errors are all the more glaring: How could an editor read the text and not catch them? If you treat these errors as opportunities to test your own growing knowledge of RTF syntax, they are actually kind of fun to find... but not what you would expect in a reference text. I have not found any obtuse errors; most are obvious as soon as you read them.Overall: well worth the money, but also an imperfect tool at best.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Very well written
  

*by C***T on Reviewed in the United States on January 14, 2013*

I agree with other reviews that point out ways that the publisher did not do this book justice: errors, lack of a reference command list.Nonetheless, reading a technical book this well written is a rare pleasure and a very efficient way to get the understanding and practical knowledge I was seeking. I am very glad to have this book.

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