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Posted by Tester
Sep 3, 2015 at 09:41 PM
Marbux wrote in another thread very positive words about NoteCase Pro (see http://www.outlinersoftware.com/topics/viewt/5999/10).
This made me yesterday to try the software.
And because you, Marbux, wrote:
>Did I mention that I *really* like NoteCase Pro?
>That’s why I’ve assisted in its development as a volunteer for the
>last four or five years.
I decided to ask you a perhaps silly question:
Is Notecase Pro (not) able to retain the formatting when coyping and pasting a text from an ordinary MS Word .doc? (It’s an old version of Word: Word 2002.)
This is always the first action which I try when testing an outliner; and when such a software fails (or works in a complicated way) concerning this simple and fundamental action I usually do not even continue the test.
Many (not all) of the outliners succeed in doing the pasting more or less completely correct. Some have certain problems, e.g. with the correct line space or with tables etc.
But Notecase Pro was one of a few programs that retained (at least in my test) almost nothing of the original formatting. In the meantime I have uninstalled it again so that I cannot show you a screenshot. But for example tables were ignored completely (that means: they were not existing at all after pasting); or for some unknown reason the different color I have for certain sentences in the original document was adopted in Notecase Pro only for a part of such a sentence: after some letters (where the color was correct) all the following ones had the default color (black).
There was so much wrong (concerning formatting) that I would like to ask you - as an expert for this software - because of pure intereset: Did I make some mistake when copying and pasting (but which could it be?) or is Notecase Pro not fully compatible with MS Word?
Posted by Tester
Sep 3, 2015 at 09:47 PM
Sorry for the mistakes in the above posting. (Unfortuntely this forum offers no possibility for editing a text. )
- Of course it should be “NoteCase” and not “Notecase” (as I wrote not only one but several times).
- And in the second to last line it should be “interest” and not “intereset”.
Posted by yosemite
Sep 3, 2015 at 09:51 PM
I don’t think Notecase Pro supports tables in its notes…
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/notecase-pro/tJAIttzWv2o
Posted by jaslar
Sep 4, 2015 at 01:43 AM
True. You can link to the file - and clicking will open it - but you can’t cut and paste the fully formatted file into an outline.
Posted by Marbux
Sep 4, 2015 at 10:41 PM
I’ve forwarded a link to the post to Miro for a better answer than I have (I have never sullied the hard drives of any of my computers with the presence of MS Office). But preliminarily, NoteCase Pro can’t do tables because of a years-old-bug in the GTK TextView library. The bug blocks having more than a single horizontal alignment in a line’s display. So it also blocks columns, blockquotes (indented on both sides), and proper hanging indent of a list item. I’ve even offered to personally pay for a bug fix, but never got a response from any of the GTK developers.
If you have a test MS Word doc we could use to see if we can clear up other problems, please email it to me at marbux pine @ maple gmail oak com (subtract the trees). I’d also hope that we could get it to the point that the data in tables is not destroyed, perhaps formatting their rows as tab-delimited lines.
We’ve got a new release that should be published early next week, so it’s too late to get this fixed during the current development cycle, but perhaps in the next (we release a new version roughly every two months).