Logan Capaldo
6/10/2005 12:36:00 AM
On 6/9/05, Nuralanur@aol.com <Nuralanur@aol.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I would like to be able to write a Rich Text Format document, including
> the format information, of course, using Ruby.
> More precisely, what I need is to do the converse of what an RTF editor
> does.
> If you type into say Jarte,
>
> black bold red and normal text
>
> and you save that as an RTF document and you open it under SciTE,
>
> that gives something like
>
> {\rtf1\ansi\ansicpg1252\deff0\deflang1031{\fonttbl{\f0\fnil\fcharset0 Times
> New Roman;}}
> {\colortbl ;\red255\green0\blue0;}
> \viewkind4\uc1\pard\f0\fs24 black \b bold \cf1 red\cf0\b0 and normal
> text\par
> }.
>
> Now I would like to use Ruby to write the garbled text below into a file and
> open
> it with an RTF editor and see bold and colored text.
> So far, I wrote the text below to a file with .rtf ending, but that just
> shows
> a text with all the garbage in it when opened with the RTF editor.
> What is needed to make an RTF editor interpret the information correctly?
>
> Thank you very much!
>
> Axel
>
>
>
>
>
Silly question, but judging by screenshots of Jarte you are on
windows. Are you sure the file extension was actually rtf? (and not
rtf.txt?). I know that has bitten me before.