rtf files are files that had formatting such as bullets, fonts and stuff. Plain
text is the files with out formatting such as justifying, etc. Someone can
explain to you off list as this is not on topic.
On Jul 16, 2012, at 7:27 AM, Patricia Taylor wrote:
> what are these filles
> On 16 Jul 2012, at 05:17, Esther wrote:
>
>> HI All,
>>
>> Just noticed that it might have been confusing to use the "---begin
>> script---" line to separate off the AppleScript for batch converting rtf and
>> doc files to text. There are only five lines to the AppleScript code. And
>> I probably should have added some comment lines to the beginning.
>>
>> Esther (Commented AppleScript below -- comments take up more lines than the
>> code does!)
>>
>> (* Convert doc and rtf files to text using the textutil convert option
>> Written for Sarah on the mac-access list.
>> Usage: Run the script and select the folder containing your file in the
>> dialog window. The program will create text versions of these files in
>> that folder with the same name and .txt extension.
>> July 15, 2012 Esther
>> *)
>> set sourceFolder to choose folder
>> tell application "Finder" to set theFiles to files of sourceFolder whose
>> name extension is in {"doc", "docx", "rtf"} or creator type is "MSWD"
>> repeat with oneFile in theFiles
>> do shell script "textutil -convert txt " & quoted form of POSIX path of
>> (oneFile as text)
>> end repeat
>>
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