GetItemValue with Rich Text wrapping lines at ~ 80 characters

I’m using doc.GetItemValue(RichTextFieldName) to grab the text out of a document and placed it into a summary mail memo. It seems to be adding line breaks after every <=80 characters. This is just what I would expect RTItem.GetFormattedText to do. Are these two methods really the same?

Subject: GetItemValue with Rich Text wrapping lines at ~ 80 characters

For your purposes I would do:

rtitem.getformattedtext(True,32767) (if you want the tabs replaced by spaces - false if not)

This will prevent the line breaks

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Subject: RE: GetItemValue with Rich Text wrapping lines at ~ 80 characters

I used .GetUnformattedText instead and it looks like I think it should.