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 include graphics) is probably okay. But if you’re producing something intended to be edited or formatted for publishing, you should seriously consider .DOCX, because with it you can easily define and export powerful styles. I mean, you could also create high-quality .DOC files, but you’d have to use an external package to do it, not the functions Apple provides.
On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 3:58 PM, Peter Hudson <peter.hud...@me.com> wrote: > 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 <j...@mooseyard.com> wrote: > > > > > >> On Jan 24, 2017, at 11:54 AM, Peter Hudson <peter.hud...@me.com> wrote: > >> > >> 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 Word. (In fact Microsoft invented RTF back in the > ‘80s as an interchange format for Word.) > > > > —Jens > _______________________________________________ > > Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) > > Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. > Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com > > Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: > https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/cejwork%40gmail.com > > This email sent to cejw...@gmail.com > -- Charles _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
