On 6 Mar 2010, at 1:59 AM, Ruedi Heimlicher wrote: > I am reading text from Word docs without problems using the NSTextView > method readRTFDFromFile. > Trying to read text from Pages documents with file extension .pages fail an > returns empty strings. The same document > saved in Word format works fine. > I was trying the NSString method stringWithContentsOfFile with various > encodings but I get only garbage. > What is going wrong? I think it must be a simple way in Apple's Xcode to read > Docs written with Apples Pages application.
With a bit of detective work, you can probably use AppleScript to persuade Pages to save a copy of the document in RTF format which you can then read into your NSTextView. Asking Pages to put a copy of the document on the pasteboard might also work. Of course, Pages would need to be installed on the target machine for this approach to work, and I doubt if all the document formatting (and, in particular, embedded images) would be preserved in the RTF version. Paul Sanders. _______________________________________________ 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: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
