Re: Reading contents of a clipping file?
Re: Reading contents of a clipping file?
- Subject: Re: Reading contents of a clipping file?
- From: "John W. Baxter" <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 09:51:35 -0800
On 11/12/2004 2:06, "Emmanuel" <email@hidden> wrote:
> At 8:05 AM +0100 11/12/04, Richard Rönnbäck wrote:
>>
>> Is there any way to read the text of a clipping file?
>
> Yes.
>
>> Is it stored in the resource fork ?
>
> Yes.
>
>> If so, how do one read the resource
>> part?
>
> One installs the Satimage osax.
This is indeed one of the really good answers (I gather there's at least one
alternative osax available).
Years ago (1994 or so) I played around a lot with clipping files in
AppleScript (and Frontier).
One could hand build them such that what Finder showed would have nothing to
do with what one got by extracting the TEXT resource of the usual number
(Finder preferred to show the PICT resource if there was one...and only at
creation time was there any effort to make the PICT represent the text--by
well behaved code such as Finder).
I have no idea what modern clipping files look like.
--john
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