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Text.TextToRTF
Creates RTF text for a given FileMaker formatted styled text.
| Component | Version | macOS | Windows | Linux | Server | FileMaker iOS SDK |
| Text | 2.4 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
(old name: TextToRTF)
Parameters
| Parameter | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|
| Text | Formatted text to convert. | "Hello World" |
Result
some text you could put into rtf file.
Description
Creates RTF text for a given FileMaker formatted styled text.Currently only ANSI text encoding. Supports styles like bold, italic, underline, font size and text color. Other style features may be added in the future on demand.
Can be used with Clipboard.SetRTFText to bring styled text to the clipboard.
Examples
Convert some text to RTF
MBS( "Text.TextToRTF"; "Hello World" )
Example result:
{\rtf1\ansi\ansicpg1252
Hello World
}
Convert some text to HTML
MBS( "Text.TextToHTML"; "Hello World" )
Example result:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="de">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="application/xhtml+xml; charset=utf-8" />
</head>
<body>
<p>Hello World</p></body>
</html>
Write RTF file:
Set Variable [$rtf; Value:MBS( "Text.TextToRTF"; "Hello World äöü ß" )]
Set Variable [$r; Value:MBS( "Text.WriteTextFile"; $rtf; "/Users/cs/Desktop/test.rtf"; "Windows")]
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Created 18th August 2014, last changed 11st December 2016
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