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Picsel Word File Format Support Page 4
ePAGE supports the most popular global file formats. The formats
interpreted by ePAGE are richly expressive, containing not just text but
sophisticated layout and rendering features, rich fonts, colour, images,
tables, graphics and many other document features. Picsel is
continuously developing its file format support to eventually cover every
feature of the native file. With such a wealth of features across many
document types, this is inevitably an ongoing process, with milestone
releases of new functionality planned at periodic intervals. The
approach involves researching the feature set most commonly found in
real documents, building support early for the most frequently used
elements, and ensuring these features are reproduced with total
faithfulness to the original. The emphasis of ePAGE is on displaying rich
content rather than on reproducing the document creation facilities of
the original application.
This document describes the features supported in ePAGE. This level of
support already covers the vast majority of characteristics that occur in
day to day documents of this type, and the specific features are
described with notes where appropriate. Those features planned for
future implementation are also described, for completeness.
Word
Microsoft Word is a word processing application that has become the
industry standard, as part of Microsoft Office. It employs a binary file
format that has undergone several significant revisions coinciding with
the release of new versions of the Office suite. As a fully fledged word
processor, the format is mainly devoted to the support of very rich text
layout and styling features. In addition it allows the inclusion of
pictures, drawings and Clip Art in a variety of bitmap and metafile
formats, such as Windows MetaFiles and JPEG photographs. Like other
applications in the Office suite, it can contain links to OLE objects of
other applications.
The level of support for Word features provided by ePAGE is shown in
the following table.
Feature Support
Notes
Supports Word 95 documents Yes The format
employed in Word
95 is the MS Word
6.0 format