RTF Format

[Ken Ray]

Really, Dan? I'm not getting that here. I created a simple stack with
the following lines in a field:

This is a test of Verdana
This is a test of Palatino
This is a test of Verdana
This is a test of Palatino

I formatted them accordingly; the first two were in the default size (14
pt according to MC), and the second two were set to 17 pt (according to
MC).

Made a button with this script:

on mouseUp
  ask file "Save rtf as:" 
  if it <> "" then
    put the rtfText of fld 1 into url ("file:" & it)
  end if
end mouseUp

Ran it, and double-clicked the resulting RTF file on the desktop of my
Mac (OS 10.2.5) and it opened TextEdit with the text formatted properly
(although TextEdit said the font sizes were 12 and 13 pt respectively -
something MC needs to fix). But at least the font came through
properly...

Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software
Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: metacard-admin at lists.runrev.com 
> [mailto:metacard-admin at lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of Dan Shafer
> Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2003 11:30 AM
> To: metacard at lists.runrev.com
> Subject: Re: RTF Format
> 
> 
> While I use Revolution and not MC, I suspect the RTF code is 
> identical in both. So far, at least, using RTF in Revolution 
> is only marginally successful.
> 
> In addition to the fact that the RTFText property of a field 
> supports a relatively minimal subset of RTF coding in 
> general, it does not appear to me to behave correctly even 
> with respect to properties it does claim to support. For 
> example, font settings are clearly not maintained. I have an 
> RTF document which uses Verdana for headings and Palatino for 
> body type but it all shows up sans-serif (Verdana, I suspect) 
> when that file is assigned to the RTFText property of a field.
> 
> I also discovered that some fairly important and basic RTF 
> formatting such as bulleted and numbered lists, is also not 
> supported. Vertical spacing is not maintained. I'm sure there 
> are lots of other stuff I didn't get to.
> 
> >Don't need a tool...
> >
> >   put the rtfText of fld 1 into fld 2
> >   -- outputs fld 1 as RTF to fld 2
> >
> >   set the rtfText of fld 1 to myRTFText
> >   -- converts RTF to styled text in fld 1
> >
> >
> >Ken Ray
> >Sons of Thunder Software
> >Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
> >Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/
> >
> >
> >> From:     LK Hagen <hagenk at uhd.edu>
> >> Organization: UH-Downtown
> >> Reply-To: metacard at lists.runrev.com
> >> Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 12:38:27 -0500
> >> To:     metacard at lists.runrev.com
> >> Subject: RTF Format
> >> 
> >> I remember a few years back that someone had a great tool 
> for reading 
> >> and writing MC fields to and from rich text format.  Does 
> that ring a 
> >> bell? Anyone know where I can find it? 
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