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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