RTF bug in TextEdit and XCode ?
Jean-Christophe Helary
fusion at mx6.tiki.ne.jp
Wed Jan 3 23:46:14 PST 2007
On 4 janv. 07, at 16:42, Jean-Christophe Helary wrote:
> I know Xcode is not specifically an RTF editor but when I looked
> around, the only RTF supporting text editor around was Xcode (and
> TextEdit). I needed to do a massive search/replace in a bunch of
> RTF files and I thought Xcode would help but I found the following
> bug (?) in both:
>
> I open an RTF file in either of the two.
> I don't do anything to it.
> I save is.
>
> The result is an RTF file that Word or OpenOffice (NeoOffice) can't
> display with the original layout, while the Apple apps won't have
> no problem displaying it with the proper line breaks etc.
Besides, I did not find a way to revert the file to its original
format...
JC Helary
>
> The (not so) funny thing is that if I do something to the file
> before saving it, it retains its line breaks and there are no
> issues at all when the file is used in non Apple apps.
>
> Is it me or is it a major bug ?
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