Interesting insight. Thanks Charles.
> On 25 Jan 2017, at 12:39, Charles Jenkins <cejw...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Just my two cents, but I find .RTF way more arcane than .DOCX, and I don’t > think Apple’s exporters for .RTF and .DOC produce high-quality documents. If > users are only going to read the documents you produce—they will not be > edited or reformatted in any way—then Apple-generated .RTFD (which can > include graphics) is probably okay. But if you’re producing something > intended to be edited or formatted for publishing, you should seriously > consider .DOCX, because with it you can easily define and export powerful > styles. I mean, you could also create high-quality .DOC files, but you’d have > to use an external package to do it, not the functions Apple provides. > >> On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 3:58 PM, Peter Hudson <peter.hud...@me.com> wrote: >> Hi Jens >> >> I wondered about RTF - but I've built everything into a view and I can't see >> a method on NSView to produce rtf. >> I've done it previously with, I think, an NSText. >> >> Peter >> >> > On 24 Jan 2017, at 20:27, Jens Alfke <j...@mooseyard.com> wrote: >> > >> > >> >> On Jan 24, 2017, at 11:54 AM, Peter Hudson <peter.hud...@me.com> wrote: >> >> >> >> But the bottom line is, I think, to get a Word doc that really behaves >> >> like a >> >> Word doc ( in word ) I need to export straight to docx format. >> > >> > Have you tried exporting to RTF? It’s a simple text-based markup format, >> > and imports well into Word. (In fact Microsoft invented RTF back in the >> > ‘80s as an interchange format for Word.) >> > >> > —Jens >> _______________________________________________ >> >> Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) >> >> Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. >> Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com >> >> Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: >> https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/cejwork%40gmail.com >> >> This email sent to cejw...@gmail.com > > > > -- > > Charles _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
