Date:         Fri, 17 Oct 2008 21:42:18 -0600
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From:         Alan Churchill <savian001@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: The Future of RTF for Clinical Reporting
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I am NOT in pharma so let me get that out of the way. If by 'RTF' you mean
'Rich Text Format' then that is very old (1980s) and is proprietary to
Microsoft. I also read that it is 8-bit which really limits it in an
increasingly Unicode world.

I can't imagine anyone moving toward any transport other than XML. The
entire computing industry is moving toward markup languages that are
derivatives of XML so I wouldn't imagine anything different in Pharma.

If I confused RTF with something else, I take it all back ;-]

Alan

Alan Churchill
Savian
www.savian.net

-----Original Message-----
From: SAS(r) Discussion [mailto:SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of
cyew07@YAHOO.CO.UK
Sent: Friday, October 17, 2008 5:52 PM
To: SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Subject: The Future of RTF for Clinical Reporting

Hi All

About a year ago I asked for your opinion/experience whether Clinical
Reporting
is moving forward to the RTF, PDF, XML, HTML formats etc.

see link
http://groups.google.co.uk/group/comp.soft-sys.sas/browse_thread/thread/cfc4
6750b00531dc/a392a118f416864d?hl=en&lnk=gst&q=cyew07

My experience is that more and more statisticians and medical writers
are aware of the RTF
format and begining to ask for it. What are your thoughts and
experience on this?


Regards
Chen