I haven't explored the REALbasic StyeledText classes yet and I have no
experience on a Mac (I'm working on a Windows machine), so I can only
report on the research that I did into RTF (before I discovered the
error in my code).
First, the detailed specifications for RTF (which, like REALbasic is
supposed to be cross-platform, used on the Mac as well as Windows
machines) are readily available on the Web (I think the current version
is 1.6) as is a "sample RTF reader application." (One place to find
these is the Microsoft Web site.)
Second, how might such information be useful? Well, one might be
interested in writing a customized RTF to HTML converter. In fact, I've
been looking around for such on the Web, but I haven't found one yet
that is entirely what I'm looking for (although I admit I didn/t try any
converter programs priced over $100).
Or one might be interested in writing a RTF to TEXT converter (which
sounds like it would be a trivial project in REALbasic). I don't know
why one would need a RTF to TEXT converter program, since there are so
many programs already that allow you to load a file in RTF format and
save it as plain TEXT (e.g., most word processors allow that and it
looks like it would be very easy to do in REALbasic), but I did notice
that one company on the Web is selling a RTF to TEXT converter program
for over $200, so someone somewhere may have a use for such a program.
Is RTF as popular on the Mac as it is in the Windows PC world (where it
is often used as a "common denominator" format between various word
processing programs, a format less precise than PDF but often
friendlier)?
Barry Traver
_______________________________________________
Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode:
<http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/>
Search the archives of this list here:
<http://www.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html>
|