On Sep 7, 2011, at 4:22 AM, Glenn L. Austin wrote:

> I would ship the files pre-converted.
> 
If I could do that I wouldn't have any of these problems in the first place.  
The app is converting users' documents.  

> On Sep 6, 2011, at 4:29 PM, Mark Munz wrote:
> 
>> One thing that 3rd party developers *now* have to also consider: Can
>> you call /usr/bin/textutil in a sandboxed app? Based on all the
>> limitations I'm seeing when trying to sandbox an app, my bet is no --
>> although I haven't tested this particular case.

Yes that is a good question.  Another is whether I can execute utilities in 
/usr/bin from a App Store app.  

>> 
>> 
>> On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 1:48 PM, Jens Alfke <j...@mooseyard.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> On Sep 6, 2011, at 12:23 PM, Douglas Davidson wrote:
>>> 
>>>> One possibility would be to convert the HTML to RTF or RTFD, which could 
>>>> be loaded in the background.  For that sort of conversion we already have 
>>>> a tool on the system, /usr/bin/textutil.
>>> 
>>> Wow, that is good to know about; I didn’t know it existed.
>>> 
>>> According to the man page it can translate between: txt, html, rtf, rtfd, 
>>> doc, docx, wordml, odt, webarchive.
>>> I should file a Radar to add Markdown and Textile to that list ;-)
> 
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