On Jun 18, 2011, at 4:15 PM, Joar Wingfors wrote: >> I surely can't be the first person to want to do this, so I ask: what have >> I missed? How can I generate extremely large rich-text files without having >> to build the entire file in memory before writing it out? > > > Perhaps your requirements for RTF formatting are simple enough that you can > create the document "manually", not relying on the capabilities provided by > Cocoa / NSAttributedString? And in that case simply append to the document as > you traverse your db. I've never looked at the RTF spec., so I've no idea how > feasible that would be...
Unless the documents involve a lot of non ascii texts, creating RTF "by hand" is pretty trivial. I'm using Oreilly's RTF Pocket Guive for reference for all the RTF formatting I need. And I think the author has a site where you can get the samples and see what kind of RTF coding is required. Jean-Christophe Helary ---------------------------------------- fun: http://mac4translators.blogspot.com work: http://www.doublet.jp (ja/en > fr) tweets: http://twitter.com/brandelune _______________________________________________ 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: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
