Saving a tab formatted field to a file and retaining its formatting

hakan at exformedia.se hakan at exformedia.se
Thu Apr 11 10:01:41 EDT 2019


If you want the tab stops to be included in the file I guess you need to add them manually to the rtf file. There is a \tx command in rtf that sets the tab size. I used it long time ago so I don’t remember of it was relative or absolut positions but I do think it should be doable…

:-Håkan
On 8 Apr 2019, 18:25 +0200, Robert J. Earp via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>, wrote:
> Thanks for the reply Paul. Yes, tried that but there are problems. It saves a .rtf file but when you open that in MSWord (OS X or Windows) the tabs are changed to underscores. If you open the file in OS X TextEdit it does have tabs but the position/spacing is not retained. I’ve created a sample/test stack if anybody wants to play ;-)
>
> Our project is supposed to create a formatted file that external to the LC project, gets assembled with other documents/files to make a presentable report. The other docs/files are .rtf (created in MSWord or Pages or TextEdit) and an .eps file. The final report will be a .pdf and Acrobat is likely what will get used to manually assemble the final report.
>
> To quote my valued colleague (RogerG) on this problem, and who has spent inordinate hours trying to find a solution, tabs have turned out to be tricky little devils in LC !!
>
> best, Bob...
>
> > From: Paul Dupuis <paul at researchware.com <mailto:paul at researchware.com>>
> > To: use-livecode at lists.runrev.com <mailto:use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>
> > Subject: Re: Saving a tab formatted field to a file and retaining its
> > formatting
> > Message-ID: <ce0de0c4-5daa-22c0-bf46-cfeceb79a2c7 at researchware.com <mailto:ce0de0c4-5daa-22c0-bf46-cfeceb79a2c7 at researchware.com>>
> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed
> >
> > I take it your have tried:
> >
> > put the rtfText of field "X" into URL
> > ("file:"&specialFolderPath("desktop")&slash&"savedfield.rtf")
> >
> > And then reading it back to a new field with:
> >
> > set the rtfText of field "Y" to URL
> > ("file:"&specialFolderPath("desktop")&slash&"savedfield.rtf")
> >
> > and the tab spacing is not preserved?
> >
> >
> >
> > On 4/7/2019 7:57 PM, Robert J. Earp via use-livecode wrote:
> > > Dear all, we have a field that is formatted nicely with tabs and want to save that as a file, retaining the tab formatting. The saved file format ideally should be .rtf but we may be able to use other formats such as .pdf
> > >
> > > Anybody got any ideas how to do this ?
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance for your suggestions.
> > >
> > > best, Bob?
> > >
> > > Bob Earp - White Rock, BC, Canada
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