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upCast RTF Import Filter: Supported RTF commands/Word elements

In the following, you find the supported RTF commands by the upCast RTF 1.6 import filter. Please keep in mind that not all elements processed on input are also available with each export filter; e.g. the XHTML export filter does currently (upCast version 5.5.1 (Build 852)) not handle headers or footers.

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Paragraphs and Text

section styles

not supported

paragraph styles

supported
most CSS2 properties supported

character styles

supported
most CSS2 properties supported

text

supported
standard western character sets supported; two-byte encodings supported via add-on module; Unicode input supported
output as Unicode in UTF-8; customizable Unicode output mapping table

special characters

partially supported
linebreaks/pagebreaks intelligently supported

Structuring elements

headings

supported
paragraph level attribute is used for automatic sectioning (also nested); numbering specially tagged (optional)

headers
footers

supported
differentiation between left/right/firstpage headers & footers

footnotes
endnotes

supported
footnotes may contain other elements like lists and tables

table of contents

partially supported
TOC fields may be marked up in export filters supporting it

Lists

lists

supported
retrieves numbering type; nested lists supported; handles both "old-style" Word95 and new Word97/2000 lists (using listtable and listoverridetable RTF keywords)

Tables

tables

supported
nested tables supported (Word 2000); nesting of lists and tables supported; table borders and cell background color supported; horizontally and vertically merged cells supported

following properties not supported: non-rectangular shaped tables

visually created "tables" (using tabulators)

not supported

References and Links

bookmarks

supported

references

supported
dedicated support for fields of type REF, NOTEREF, PAGEREF

hyperlinks

supported
handles fields of type HYPERLINK

index entries

supported
also main and sub-entry (using \xe and : delimiter), up to 9 levels deep

Images and Embedded Objects

referenced images

supported
dedicated support for INCLUDEPICTURE

embedded images

mostly supported
embedded binary images are written as files to disk and are referenced appropriately from the XML/XHTML output; supported formats: PNG, JPEG, WMF, PICT; most WMF images can also automatically be converted/rendered to bitmap formats

image captions not supported (only as normal flowing text)

mathematical formulae

partially supported
the formula editor writes a WMF alternate representation, which will be handled like embedded images
manual formula creation using FIELD instructions (like EQ, …) is not directly supported, but field instructions are accessible
you may have the binary object data be embedded in base64 encoding in the resulting XML document

forms

supported

drawing objects, shapes

not supported

OLE objects
other embedded objects

partially supported
if these objects generate an image as alternate representation, this will be handled like embedded images
additionally, you may have the binary object data be embedded in base64 encoding in the resulting XML document

textbox

partially supported
(only textbox objects; absolutely positioned paragraphs not supported)

fields

mostly supported
nested fields are flattened, field instructions and type (EQ, DATE, =, …) can be retrieved; results are standard document text

generated text (like index, list of figures etc.)

not directly supported

Document properties

standard properties

supported

user defined document properties

supported

Document Template (.dot file reference)

supported

document variables

supported