Re: reading text rom Pages doc
Re: reading text rom Pages doc
- Subject: Re: reading text rom Pages doc
- From: "Paul Sanders" <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2010 23:34:12 -0000
On 6 Mar 2010, at 1:59 AM, Ruedi Heimlicher wrote:
> I am reading text from Word docs without problems using the NSTextView method readRTFDFromFile.
> Trying to read text from Pages documents with file extension .pages fail an returns empty strings. The same document
> saved in Word format works fine.
> I was trying the NSString method stringWithContentsOfFile with various encodings but I get only garbage.
> What is going wrong? I think it must be a simple way in Apple's Xcode to read Docs written with Apples Pages application.
With a bit of detective work, you can probably use AppleScript to persuade Pages to save a copy of the document in RTF format which you can then read into your NSTextView. Asking Pages to put a copy of the document on the pasteboard might also work. Of course, Pages would need to be installed on the target machine for this approach to work, and I doubt if all the document formatting (and, in particular, embedded images) would be preserved in the RTF version.
Paul Sanders.
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