RTF Format

[Dan Shafer]

Ken Ray wrote:

>Really, Dan? I'm not getting that here. 

You did the opposite of what I was describing, I think. Outputting RTF from the RTFText of a field does seem to work. But I created a file in Word (also one in TextEdit in OS X), saved it, then set the RTFText of a Rev field to that file and got the results I reported.

Since it is obviously a terrible idea to compose long texts inside RR, my question is how to prepare nicely formatted text in a full-blown text/word processor that can then, when imported into RR, look as much as possible like the original text. So far, at least, my answer is, "You can't do that."



>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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