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Text.TextToRTF

Creates RTF text for a given FileMaker formatted styled text.

Component Version macOS Windows Linux Server iOS SDK
Text 2.4 ✅ Yes ✅ Yes ✅ Yes ✅ Yes ✅ Yes
MBS( "Text.TextToRTF"; Text )   More

(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")]

See also

Release notes

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Created 18th August 2014, last changed 11st December 2016


Text.TextToHTML - Text.Tidy