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Re: RTF vs XCode

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Tim Streater wrote:
> Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> wrote:
>> I don't know about BBEdit, but GraphicConverter is definitely "suffix
>> aware" - when in a Save As window, whatever suffix you type on the
>> filename will automatically change the file format it saves as (as will
>> choosing the format from the pop-up menu of course). If you type ".jpg"
>> or ".jpeg" the file saves as a JPG. If you type ".tiff" it saves as a
>> TIF, etc.
>
> Well obviously. A .tiff is a different format from a .jpg or .png and
> the file sizes will be diffeent too.
>
> A .txt file is just text. So is a .rtf file. You can save your text
> file as .doc but that doesn't make the file be in Word format. Try
> writing some simple text in a Word document, save it as .doc, and open
> that with BBedit and see how far you get.

Exact this method I've used many, many times when people came to me with 
more or less damaged .doc/.docx files which they aren't able to open in 
Word (mainly Word for Windows).

The most obvious differences are all the crap that MSWD puts into the 
document header and each and everytime you've hit the 'Save' command.

Not long ago I received an article around 2:00AM with a cry for help. 
The document (MSWD .docx 2003/2008) couldn't be opened in Word 2008 Mac 
and it had to go to the press next morning at 7:00AM...

What to do now? BBEdit 9.6.3... opened the file and I stripped it for 
anything Word-crap, headers, save info, paragraph break info etc., saved 
it as a .rtf file. Opened it in NisusWriter Pro and corrected the 
missing Danish characters æÆ, øØ and åÅ, saved and zipped and along it 
went to the author. This process only took less than half an hour!

Cheers, Erik Richard

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RTF vs XCode Siri Cruise <chine.bleu@yahoo.com> - 2014-03-27 20:26 -0700
  Re: RTF vs XCode Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-03-28 04:11 +0000
    Re: RTF vs XCode Siri Cruise <chine.bleu@yahoo.com> - 2014-03-27 23:35 -0700
      Re: RTF vs XCode ErikRS <mac-dane@is.invalid> - 2014-03-28 14:30 +0100
        Re: RTF vs XCode Siri Cruise <chine.bleu@yahoo.com> - 2014-03-28 06:39 -0700
      Re: RTF vs XCode Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2014-03-29 08:41 +1200
  Re: RTF vs XCode Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2014-03-29 08:44 +1200
    Re: RTF vs XCode ErikRS <mac-dane@is.invalid> - 2014-03-28 23:28 +0100
      Re: RTF vs XCode Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2014-03-28 23:06 +0000
        Re: RTF vs XCode Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2014-03-29 12:24 +1200
          Re: RTF vs XCode Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2014-03-29 08:02 +0000
            Re: RTF vs XCode ErikRS <mac-dane@is.invalid> - 2014-03-29 13:17 +0100
              Re: RTF vs XCode Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2014-03-29 18:02 +0000
                Re: RTF vs XCode ErikRS <mac-dane@is.invalid> - 2014-03-30 03:00 +0200
            Re: RTF vs XCode Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2014-03-30 09:55 +1200
              Re: RTF vs XCode Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2014-03-29 22:27 +0000
              Re: RTF vs XCode ErikRS <mac-dane@is.invalid> - 2014-03-30 03:16 +0200
          Re: RTF vs XCode ErikRS <mac-dane@is.invalid> - 2014-03-29 12:49 +0100
        Re: RTF vs XCode ErikRS <mac-dane@is.invalid> - 2014-03-29 12:30 +0100
      Re: RTF vs XCode Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2014-03-29 12:03 +1200
        Re: RTF vs XCode Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-03-28 23:56 +0000
      Re: RTF vs XCode Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2014-03-29 12:20 +1200
        Re: RTF vs XCode ErikRS <mac-dane@is.invalid> - 2014-03-29 12:55 +0100
      Re: RTF vs XCode Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2014-03-29 12:27 +1200
      Re: RTF vs XCode Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2014-03-29 12:32 +1200

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