Interesting insight.
Thanks Charles.
> On 25 Jan 2017, at 12:39, Charles Jenkins wrote:
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> 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
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
incl
You might take a look back at the TextEdit source.
It should be pretty straight forward to save as .rtf or .rtfd, if by table you
mean you have a rich text table.
> On Jan 25, 2017, at 6:35, Peter Hudson wrote:
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> I was trying to avoid having to go to Direct RTF markup. But as you say, it
>
I was trying to avoid having to go to Direct RTF markup. But as you say, it may
be the answer.
Peter
> On 24 Jan 2017, at 21:13, Jens Alfke wrote:
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>
>> On Jan 24, 2017, at 12:58 PM, Peter Hudson wrote:
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>> I wondered about RTF - but I've built everything into a view and I can't see
>>
> On Jan 24, 2017, at 12:58 PM, Peter Hudson wrote:
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> 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.
I meant producing it programmatically. It’s a markup language, around
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 wrote:
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>
>> On Jan 24, 2017, at 11:54 AM, Peter Hudson wrote:
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>> Bu
> On Jan 24, 2017, at 11:54 AM, Peter Hudson wrote:
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> 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
Many thanks for this Charles. I'll check it out.
Peter
> On 24 Jan 2017, at 20:11, Charles Jenkins wrote:
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> There is an open specification for the file format, which will allow you to
> easily (if tediously) write your own exporter.
>
> The spec is at:
> http://www.ecma-international.org
There is an open specification for the file format, which will allow you to
easily (if tediously) write your own exporter.
The spec is at:
http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ecma-376.htm
(These are huge downloads)
If you have access to a Windows PC, there is a Windows-based
Hi All
I have a report that I currently print to PDF.
Its a simple table with text ( varying fonts ) in the table.
I have tried to convert it to docx with a variety of proprietary converters.
One or two of them do a reasonable job.
But the bottom line is, I think, to get a Word doc that really b
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