Hi James,
Am 09.06.2011 um 19:29 schrieb James Hurley:
>> Message: 10
>> Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2011 16:20:42 +0200
>> From: Mark Schonewille <m.schonewi...@economy-x-talk.com>
>> To: How to use LiveCode <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>
>> Subject: Re: Importing Word documents
>> Message-ID: <dcf3260a-5b5c-40b4-becc-4785230e6...@economy-x-talk.com>
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>> Jim,
>>
>> get shell("textutil -convert rtf" && quote & "path/to/file.docx" & quote)
>> This will produce a file path/to/file.rtf, which you can read with LiveCode.
>>
>> --
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Mark Schonewille
>
> Mark,
>
> This doesn't work for me. It appears to recognize the file name but "it"
> comes up empty.
> Does this work on Word files or just Text files?
IT will only contain the RESULT of the shell command!
It will convert the Word file to a RTF file in the same folder:
>> This will produce a file path/to/file.rtf, which you can read with LiveCode.
:-)
> Jim
Best
Klaus
--
Klaus Major
http://www.major-k.de
kl...@major.on-rev.com
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