Why is my license not showing up?

Question

In my <Product> I have:

<WixVariable Id="WixUILicenseRtf" Value="LICENSE.rtf" />

LICENSE.rtf exists, and is an rtf file (I've tried saving with a few different programs in case it was a problem with one of them).

The file contains text (a whole license!), and the text is sensibly formatted.

Why then, is the License field of my installer blank?

Neibart

possible duplicate of wix specify licence shows nothing – Extramarital

Answer 1

It turns out you basically must generate your rtf with Wordpad, or make a perfect replica. Since mine are generated by scripts, I adjusted my script to insert the Wordpad header to the rtf file, and this fixed it.

Neibart

Yes, realize that Windows Installer 1.0 was invented back in the late 1990's targeting Win95/98/NT4/Win2k. The RichText control is really, really long in the tooth and it's never been updated to preserve backwards compatibility. – Jemadar