Open .textclipping file in Rev?

Garrett Hylltun garrett at paraboliclogic.com
Sun Jul 9 00:30:15 EDT 2006


J. Landman Gay wrote:
> Garrett Hylltun wrote:
>  > J. Landman Gay wrote:
>  >> Garrett Hylltun wrote:
>  >>> Rev 2.6.1 / OS X
>  >>>
>  >>> Greetings,
>  >>>
>  >>> Does anyone know how on earth to open a .textclipping file in Rev?
>  >>
>  >> Like this:
>  >>
>  >>  put getResource(theFilePath,"TEXT",256) into theClipText
>  >>
>  >
>  > Thank you Jacqueline :-)
> 
> You're welcome, but I should probably have mentioned that clipping files 
> often have long file names of more than 32 characters, which means the 
> names get internally hashed by the OS. When that happens, you'll hit the 
> problem where Rev thinks the file isn't "found".
> 

The file name of .textclipping files I'll be dealing with are the same, 
which is "Attribution.textClipping", which is only 24 characters total, 
not including the path though.  That doesn't apply to the path and the 
file name does it?

-Garrett



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