Follow-up: Now Contact 4.2.x to Address Book 3.0.x utility
Follow-up: Now Contact 4.2.x to Address Book 3.0.x utility
- Subject: Follow-up: Now Contact 4.2.x to Address Book 3.0.x utility
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 16:06:50 EDT
For the record, I was just informed by FaxSTF's staff that the NowContact to
Apple Address Book utility I posted earlier and which some of you downloaded
will not work for purposes of FaxSTF. The basis and the letter is as follows:
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Marc:
I finally took a look at your utility this morning. Having written one
myself for Jaguar I can appreciate how much work went into it. Unfortunately,
we can not endorse the use of this utility where FAXstf X is concerned
because your utility has the same limitation that a similar utility that I
have written also has due to an Apple bug. The Jag Address Book has a bug
that causes telephone numbers of any type create by apple events to be tagged
incorrectly in the vCard data of the Address Book. Specifically, a correctly
tagged and labeled fax number should look like "TEL;type=
FAX:816-554-9397"; in
the vCard. Currently the Address Book will format any number create via
apple events as "TEL:(816) 554-9397" or "TEL;type=pref:403 274 8004" - even
though the number has the correct label in the Address Book GUI. You can
verify this by dragging a vCard created by your utility to the desktop and
then opening it in TextEdit. The end result is that a fax can not be
addressed with any such vCard.
The reason that this is a problem for us is that our printer driver looks
specifically for the "FAX" tag in the vCard data to determine which number
within the vCard is a fax number. This would not be a problem for any
software that doesn't need to be so critical of the tagged info.
I have reported this problem to Apple via Developer Technical Services and
they have confirmed that it is a bug in the Address Book. When they fix it
I will inform you of the fix and share any example code that they send me.
Thanks again for sending this utility to us. If you have any others, feel
free to email them to me.
Chad Krause
Quality Assurance Supervisor (FaxSTF)
Smith Micro Software, Inc. www.smithmicro.com/mac
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My apologies to any list user who got frustrated as a result. Please note
that the utility still works in the sense that it does indeed transfer the
contacts to the address book.
Sincerely Yours,
=-= Marc Glasgow
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