Vsoft wrote:
We have the following problem:
There is a RTF file that must be viewed on browser and we
have been developed a solution in Java to do it. But the
Java's VM is so bigger for download. So, we need a way to
view this file in client side without bigger downloads.
Any help will be welcome, because we work more than a
month in this problem. Thanks.
If the user's browser is hosted on a Windows machine running Internet
Explorer, then RTF files will usually be passed to Microsoft Word,
WordPad, or the Word Viewer. So if your client is on Windows, then you
should have little problem downloading reading RTF files; just make sure
that the RTF file extension is assigned to the appropriate program.
There *are* differences between the acceptable RTF format for various
versions of those programs, however, and those difference may restrict
what you can put in the RTF file.
On client systems other than Windows, you'll have to find an RTF viewer
AFAIK.
You may find that Microsoft's Word DOC file format has more widespread
support than RTF, because there are DOC file viewers/word processors
available on Linux/Unix(Star Office, Open Office).