Sources of rich text
Any word processor
You can prepare rich text in any word processor that can save or
export rich text format.
Input fields in PowerBuilder
only
Although many word processors support some kinds of fields, the
fields are usually incompatible with other rich text interpreters. If
you want to specify input fields for a PowerBuilder application, you
will have to insert them using the PowerBuilder RichTextEdit
control.
Rich text in the database
Since rich text is represented by ASCII characters, you can also
store rich text in a string database column or string variable. You can
retrieve rich text from a string database column and use the PasteRTF
function to display the text with formatting in a RichTextEdit
control.