RTF documents as templates

[Jan Schenkel]

I recall a post from November 2008 where Franz Böhmisch posted a way to embed images into RTF files, followed by Ken Ray's abstraction of said method. Searching the use-revolution archives, I found these two links for you:
<http://mail.runrev.com/pipermail/use-revolution/2008-November/117180.html>
<http://mail.runrev.com/pipermail/use-revolution/2008-November/117212.html>

Other than that, I'm afraid there's no built-in way to print those RTF documents and you'd have to rely on the presence of MS Word on the end-user machine. While it's nearly ubiquitous on Windows, MacOSX is another matter so you may have to decypher the .rtfd bundle format that TextEdit uses, to cram your images into it.

Jan Schenkel
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--- On Wed, 6/9/10, stephen barncard <stephenREVOLUTION2 at barncard.com> wrote:
>
> "Pure" RTF text files created by Rev
> are a styled text format that is
> readable by Word and most text editors, but does not
> include images.
> 
>   On the mac, RTF documents (note the suffix .rtfd)
> created by TextEdit are
> actually BUNDLES, not files, and contain the RTF file and
> the graphic files.
>  RTF files saved by Word I believe do not save images
> either,  that is for
> the .doc format.
> 
> On 8 June 2010 15:20, JosepM <jmyepes at mac.com>
> wrote:
> 
> >
> > Hi again,
> >
> > Some questions for the experts...
> >
> > How can open or print a RTF file without Word?
> TextEdit loss the images and
> > format of tables...
> >
> > How can open and print from Applescript without view
> the flashing RTF file?
> >
> >
> >
> > Salut,
> > Josep
> >