Mac OS X TextEdit problems (was: Bad news I'm afraid)

Hello Ben,

We have had reports of problems with TextEdit already, but I don't have 
access to it for testing.

If you want to contribute to fixing this problem, it would help a lot if you 
could narrow it down to the smallest document that causes the problem in 
TextEdit. You could start with the jfor samples (available as part of the 
source code download) or even an empty XSL-FO document with no text and see 
at which point loading with TextEdit breaks.

The goal is finding the precise RTF construct that causes the problem. 

What we do usually in such a case is edit the generated RTF by hand (text 
editor) until the problem disappears (requires some RTF knowledge, you can 
find links to the spec under http://www.jfor.org/#links. As the RTF spec is 
somewhat vague and subject to various interpretations, that's unfortunately 
the only way.

Thanks for your interest in jfor!
-- 
 Bertrand Delacrétaz (codeconsult.ch, jfor.org)

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On Friday 14 June 2002 03:31, Ben Godfrey wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've just spent all night marking up my CV with the XML resume
> library, so you can  imagine how enthusiastic I was when I
> realised that I could add an RTF version to my PDF and HTML ones.
>
> Anyway, I'm using Mac OS X, which is why RTF would be so useful.
> It is the core format used by TextEdit, the OS X shipping basic
> word processor.
>
> Sadly, TextEdit seemed unable to open either any documents I
> produced myself or any of the test documents generated by
> CreateTestDocuments. I have no idea why this might be, TextEdit,
> by virtue of being an Apple application, does not produce
> meaningful error messages, preferring the "Not today, thanks"
> style.
>
> Will you be making any updates before integrating with FOP? I'm
> already using FOP to do the PDF version. If you are making
> changes and want me to test any theories or new/old versions I
> would be happy to, just drop me a line.
>
> Hope this is useful,
>
> Ben Godfrey







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