Importing an RTF file

Mike Doub Mike at Doub.com
Fri Oct 8 05:14:35 EDT 2004


Since I don't have control of the original file are you suggesting that I
load the rtf file into a variable and start trying to strip out the
offending tags then set the remaining RTF to a field?  I am assuming that
RTF has tags similar to html

I do not need to keep any of the formatting as I am only interested in the
raw text content of the document.  I guess that I am going to be forced to
learn the details of RTF

Thanks
  Mike

-----Original Message-----
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xbury.cs at clearstream.com
Sent: Friday, October 08, 2004 4:56 AM
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Subject: RE: Importing an RTF file

try resaving the document as RTF from Word.

Other wise, remove any non-text or extra styles.
Break down the problem: try importing half of the file and
see which one fails...

hope that helps!
Xavier 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com 
> [mailto:use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of 
> Mike Doub
> Sent: Friday, October 08, 2004 10:51 AM
> To: use-revolution at lists.runrev.com
> Subject: Importing an RTF file
> 
> Does anyone have experience with using RTPText?  I am trying 
> to load a RTF file into a field.  The RTF file opens just 
> fine with word, but it completely silent when I try to load 
> its contents into a field as follows:
> 
>  
> 
> Set the RTFText of fld "foo" to URL tFilePath
> 
>  
> 
> tFilePath is valid, and when I put tFilePath into fld "foo" I 
> do see the raw RTF data.
> 
>  
> 
> The documentation says that it ignores the parts of RTF that 
> are not supported, I fear that it is ignoring the entire 
> document and I am not seeing anything. 
> 
>  
> 
> Does anyone have any debug suggestions that would allow me to 
> see what is happening under the covers?
> 
>  
> 
> Regards,
> 
>    Mike
> 
>  
> 
>  
> 
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