Saving as plain text

When saving as plain text does pages enter line breaks? Thanks

Did you try it?
Would only take a minute.
My guess is no because Pages does not have a fixed monospace line width.
Peter

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.pdf icons saved as 'plain text' style on desktop

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Windows Vista Home Premium SP1
Hello Forum,
As suject, with the new Acrobat 8 Pro, my saved pdf files (pdf icons on desktop) are showing as 'plain text' view style. How do i make them back to the classic .pdf style.
Thanks

Hello Bill and thank you for your reply.
No, i can open them indeed, it's not a file association issue. They (icons) aren't really in 'plain text' view, it's a sort of way how they are displaying (looks like you can choose the way of displaying or something like that). By the way, I noticed that if i refresh my desktop (by pressing F5 key), these pdf icons are back to their 'classic' view but just for a miliseconds, before they turn to the strange behavior that i mentioned above. Could it be my display's refreshing rate or something like this?
Thank you again

Simple text Editor App.. Saving Plain Text

Hi All,
I am trying to write my first text application in cocoa... I have got a working app from an Apple tutorial, however when saving, it uses the following:
Code:
- (NSData *)dataRepresentationOfType:(NSString *)aType
NSData *data;
[self setString:[textView textStorage]];
data = [NSArchiver archivedDataWithRootObject:[self string]];
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Which saves the content as not plain text. Is there anyway I can change the above to save as plain text ?
Any help / direction would be great! Thanks,

Perhaps something like this will work for you:
NSString *s = [textView string];
NSData *data = [NSData dataWithBytes: [s UTF8String] length: [s length]];

Saving plain text on a mac (Keyboard shortcuts file)

Hi there perhaps some mac users can help me...
I am manually editing the keyboard shortcuts file in TEXT edit on a mac (Im a pc user). I open the file as plain text all the rich text stuff turned off.
(Looked up how to do this.)
I edit one of the shortcuts, no unusual characters etc.
When I restart CC, it gives an error and shows squiggley characters at that line as the problem.
On a pc I just edit and save as plain text and there are no issues...
What am I doing wrong on a mac in Text edit ?
Thanks Alan.

The issue you are encountering might be related to how TextEdit handles line endings? Not sure, but have you tried using the KeyedUp script to edit shortcuts? I used it for CC and it seems to be working fine.
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/exchange/index.cfm?event=extensionDetail&extid=1698043
Hope that helps,
Arie

Newbie help with sample Studio app. "Plain Text Editor"

I'm trying to make the jump from AppleScript to AppleScript Studio, and because I want to eventually write a document producing application I thought I'd start with the textbook example "Plain Text Editor" included with Xcode. I think I see how menu items are connected to "Target/Actions," and I was able to build and run it without difficulty. It's remarkable how little AppleScript had to be written to produce a rudamentary text editor. But in playing with the built application, I noticed that the Revert menu item does not work exactly as expected.
If you create a text document, and then make some change to it, and then click the Revert menu item, you get the expected little dialog asking if you want to revert to the most recently saved version, but if you then click the Revert button, the text displayed in the text view object does not revert to the original. However, something is happening, because whatever code is behind the Save, Close, and Quit menu items does seem to be "aware" that the Revert item has been invoked: because if you click one of these after Revert, the "do you want to save changes?" warning doesn't appear, just as one might expect.
The Revert menu item seems to be connected to a "Target/Action" called "revertDocumentToSaved:" which sounds perfectly reasonable. But does the fact that Revert doesn't cause the displayed editing text to revert mean that (a) there is a bug in the code behind this Target/Action, or (b) that the writer of this textbook example just didn't bother to do everything needed for the Revert item to work in an intuitive manner?
Whichever the answer, what would I do to make it work properely?
It seems like there must be some sort of connection between the text view object in the editing window, and the Close, Save, Quit suite of menu items, because the behavior of these is dependant on whether or not there are unsaved changes in the text view object. But looking through the Inspector for this object, I don't see any, neither AppleScripts, nor Outlets, nor Target/Actions. Where and for what should I be looking?
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I think -- and I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong -- that this is a place where AppleScript Studio's implementation just isn't done right. Either they intended to add a "revert" handler somewhere and forgot, or else they meant to have it send an existing message and didn't.
I haven't done any document-based applications -- heck, I've only dabbled slightly in AppleScript Studio -- so there may be a "deeper" answer to this, but you might consider just hooking the menu item up to send its "choose menu item" handler to your document script, and have it react accordingly.

All attachments opening as plain text

Apparently without any changing of settings the mail program is opening all attachments as plain text. This occurs although the program is available to open the attachment. I know the attachments can be saved to the desktop and then opened, but this causes clutter and many attachments are not worthy of saving. Any suggestions on restoring the mail program to seeking the proper application to match the attachment. I have tried searching all the menus and cannot get View>message>best alternative to be highlighted and selectable. Thank you for any suggestions.

''re: not displaying any incoming messages with html.''
Do you have this setting ?
'View' > 'Message Body as ' > 'Original HTML'
BTW - you may prefer to see all the toolbars. They can be enabled - see image below.

TextEdit - Plain Text Files That Open In Windows?

Hi. Just got an iMac. I've been trying to make plain text files in TextEdit that show up correctly in Windows on a PC. I've tried saving the same document in 4 different formats:
- Plan Text Unicode (UTF-8)
- Plain Text Unicode (UTF-16)
- Plain Text Western (Mac OS Roman)
- Plain Text Western (Windows Latin 1)
But none of these look right on a PC. All of the line breaks I've entered show up replaced by black rectangles. Why is this?
What format should I save as in TextEdit, to create Plain Text files that are compatible with both PC and Macs?

First, note that TextEdit does not create plain text files, it creates rich text files (.rtf). If you truly want plain text, try the free TextWrangler:
http://www.barebones.com/
As to the line break problem, Macs use just a carriage return as the end-of-line character, while Windows uses a carriage return followed by a line break character. At least, that's how I understand it. Most likely, whatever app you're using on Windows is dumb enough that it can't figure out what to do with the Mac line endings. TextWrangler will let you change the line breaks, so you could use it to create plain text files with Windows line breaks. Of course, that doesn't help if you didn't really want plain text (ie, absolutely no styling, just raw text).

Cannot Send a Saved Draft Plain Email

10.6.2 - POP email account - I have written emails, saved as drafts (no file attachments - just plain text). When I try to send the saved drafts, the "send" button is grayed out. I cannot do anything with the saved drafts. They're stuck in the drafts folder. Ideas?

I solved the issue myself. It seems like the outgoing SMTP server settings (Cox Communications) was not set up just right. Once I corrected the problem, the send options on each saved draft became available to use. The mail was sent with no more issues. Tricky to figure out but rather simple to fix.

How can I save an email as plain text when the save as is greyed out?

How can I save an email message as a plain text document if the saved as command is greyed out? I am using OSX Mountain Lion. Macbook Pro thanks.

OK, but is it happening to you with all messages or just some messages? If just some, can you characterize which ones? (Maybe messages with only one "alternative*" form, or with the "wrong" alternative for displayed, or messages containng images but no text?)
* By "alternative" form, I mean in the sense of Mail > View > Message > Previous Alternative or Next Alternative or Plain Text Alternaive or Best Alternative.)
Similarly, can you characterize the circumstances under which you cannot save an attachment?

Bug in Mail: Plain-Text | Rich-Text-Mails

Hi,
just found a bug in Mail (Mac OS X 10.6.2):
I am using a faxservice-provider, which sends my PDF-files to the transmitted fax-number.
This stopped working a few weeks ago, the recipients of my faxe just get blank pages.
I talked to the provider and they told me, that I was sending "Multi-Part-HTML"-mails, so their fax-software just sends the first part of the mail (some blank lines) and not the attached PDF-file.
So I checked a few thing and found the following bug:
Mail is set up to send mails only as "plain-text"-mails.
But if i send an email via the print-dialog ("send PDF per Mail") Mail creates a Rich-Text-mail. This also happens when using the "send PDF via Mail button" in Adobe Reader.
The created Mail is NOT a plain-text-mail!
Saving a PDF-file to the desktop and dragging the file to the Mail-Icon in the dock creates a "Plain-Text-File".
So you need to check the format of the Mail in the "Format-Menu". If you change the format at this place to "Plain-Text" everything is working fine.
Something in this Automator-workflow-script is working wrong. This workflow just has the order to create a new Mail with the PDF as attachment, so I can't change anything their. But the error must be founded in this script/workflow.
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[Mail] Replacing a signature with a text in the plain text alternative..?

Hi all.
I just created a signature for Mail. All is good, I created it in HTML and adapted it accordingly. The issue is, I have my name on it in a sort of logotype so I'm not typing my name explicitly in any email. Now, if the application settings of the other party is set to display emails in plain text format, the plain text alternative of the email will naturally omit the signature thus my name.
Is there any chance I can make it replace the signature with my name for the plain text version? I tried using the 'alt' attribute in the 'object', 'div' and 'img' tags, CDATA and some other tricks but no luck yet. Hope someone has an experience in this subject that has resulted in success...
Thanks in advance.

If you open a HTML document in a text editor (not TextEdit), you will see stuff like:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/REC-xhtml1-20000126/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>Untitled</title>
<meta name="generator" content="BBEdit 6.5.3" />
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>
The part that you need to keep is just the anchor tag:
It depends on how the document is saved, so if an application includes the headers (you can't really tell by just looking at the rendered document), you need to manually remove them. I use BBEdit to create a HTML file with just the anchor tag, so I don't have to worry about what an application is going to copy it as.

Text Edit Question: How Do I Create/Save PLAIN TEXT??

I've been using Macs now for over a year, and this is still an annoying quibble that I haven't sorted out. I don't know if this is the right place to raise this question or not, but there don't seem to be any other places for it, so it goes here.
How do create and save a simple, plain text, no code, no embellishments, file using this "TextEdit" program?
I'm familiar with Notepad in Windows. Used it for a million things for years and years. All it would do is "plain" (i.e. ascii) text. No frills whatsoever.
No I guess TextEdit is the Mac equivalent of Notepad? But it wants to do both "plain text" and "Rich Text Format," and apparently I haven't learned how to keep them separate.
I created a new file. I told it to make the file "plain text." Then I typed some stuff, saved and closed the file.
But when I reopened the file, I found all this crap in the header:
{\rtf1\ansi\ansicpg1252\cocoartf949\cocoasubrtf330
{\fonttbl\f0\fswiss\fcharset0 Helvetica;\f1\fnil\fcharset0 LucidaGrande;}
{\colortbl;\red255\green255\blue255;\red41\green81\blue169;}
\margl1440\margr1440\vieww9000\viewh8400\viewkind0
\deftab720
\pard\pardeftab720\ql\qnatural
\f0\fs24 \cf0 \
And all these slashes and other code-type crap that makes the actual text I typed unreadable.
So, somebody, please, tell me: how do I create a simple plain text file like I used to be able to do with Notepad, and not have to worry about it being all garbled when I go to re-open it.
Should be easy, but it's not.
--PS

If I format fonts, even in a "plain text" document, am I going to wind up with code again when I reopen it?
Not unless you save it as rich text.
Why is a "plain text" document even offering me bold and italics or any other kind of formatting?
Why would someone wanting to write plain text use bold or italics options? On the other hand, I'm sure many people would like to print and compose formatted text now and then even when they prefer to keep TextEdit in plain text mode for most of their work.
I miss notepad. All it did was plain text. No options to confuse things. Where is the Mac equivalent of THAT??
Try TextWrangler

How to conver HTML text to plain text?

If I am lucky, I hope to get some real good answers. Basically, I have an HTML file saved on my hard drive, and I want to convert that HTML file to a plain text file.
I tried implementing something myself. My algorithm was to simply match "<" and ">" and get rid of anything in between. It's working fine, but it's not fully cooked. It doesn't get rid of some weird characters like &XXXX, which is supposed to be some sort of a code for HTML. Also, it doesn't remove JavaScript codes or anything that's not contained in <BODY>...</BODY>. I sure can improve my program, but I am also hoping to see a faster and more efficient way to deal with that.
I browsed thru some old topics, but nothing was satisfactory. Someone suggested the use of JEditorPane:
int len = pane.getDocument().getLength();
try {
String text = pane.getDocument().getText(0,len);
System.out.println(text);
} catch (Exception e) {
System.exit(0);
But the problem with that is how a JEditorPane object should be instantiated. I could do something like this JEditorPane pane = new JeditorPane (URL url) or JEditorPane pane = new JeditorPane (String url). Either way, the program takes time to download the HTML page from the corresponding url. If one tries to detect �int len�, one can see that �int len� is likely to be zero, because the HTML page cannot be fully loaded in time. I guess I could try to deal with that problem by creating threads and stuffs. But I hope that there are some better solutions to end this misery once and for all.

Here is a link to an article on the "Swing HTML Parser":
http://java.sun.com/products/jfc/tsc/articles/bookmarks/index.html
This is an example of how you might use the parser callback to solve your problem:
import java.io.FileReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.Reader;
import javax.swing.text.MutableAttributeSet;
import javax.swing.text.html.HTML;
import javax.swing.text.html.HTMLEditorKit;
import javax.swing.text.html.parser.ParserDelegator;
public class TestParser extends HTMLEditorKit.ParserCallback
     boolean ignoreText;
     public static void main(String[] args)
     throws IOException
          TestParser parser = new TestParser();
          // args[0] is the file to parse
          Reader reader = new FileReader(args[0]);
          try
               new ParserDelegator().parse(reader, parser, false);
          catch (IOException e)
               System.out.println(e);
     public void handleComment(char[] data, int pos)
//          System.out.println(data);
     public void handleEndOfLineString(String eol)
     public void handleEndTag(HTML.Tag tag, int pos)
//          System.out.println("/" + tag);
          if (tag.equals(HTML.Tag.STYLE)
          || tag.equals(HTML.Tag.SCRIPT) )
               ignoreText = false;
     public void handleError(String errorMsg, int pos)
//          System.out.println(pos + ":" + errorMsg);
     public void handleMutableTag(HTML.Tag tag, MutableAttributeSet a, int pos)
//          System.out.println("mutable:" + tag + ": " + pos + ": " + a);
     public void handleSimpleTag(HTML.Tag tag, MutableAttributeSet a, int pos)
//          System.out.println( tag + ":" + a );
     public void handleStartTag(HTML.Tag tag, MutableAttributeSet a, int pos)
//          System.out.println( tag + ":" + a );
          if (tag.equals(HTML.Tag.STYLE)
          || tag.equals(HTML.Tag.SCRIPT) )
               ignoreText = true;
     public void handleText(char[] data, int pos)
          if (! ignoreText)
               System.out.println( data );
}

Anyone Know difference between pure Text Document and Plain Text Document?

I am having a **** of a time trying to figure out how to create a "text document" on the Mac. From what I've read, it's not possible to create a pure "text document" with Mac .... only possibly windows.
I have a text document (created in Textedit in Mac),that can only be saved as either a "plain text document" or a "rich text format (.RTF) formatted file.
I need to save (or re-create), the text file in a file that will save as a
"text document".
In either the <command+I> option, or in a folder window line description, I need to see the text file saved as the wording or a "rich text format (.RTF) .... and not "plain text document" or a "rich text format (.RTF).
Evidently, the difference between the text files that Apple TextEdit creates, and those that are a pure "text document", have something to do with the hidden carriage return command language at the end of the command lines ... or something like that.
The text file is being used as a command text file for a modified VTC Training "set-up folder/GUI" that will run on either Mac or Windows.
I have seen on-line, some mention that using windows "notepad" (texteditor) may be the only way to create a true "text document" labeled file.
Any suggestions, or knowledge in this area would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks! -David
Message was edited by: DavidMac

The way to preserve an existing "text document" is to import it into OS 9.2 and
open it up in Apple Simpletext (text edit program).
Changes can be made to the original "text document" (not an original .rtf or .txt file, which aren't true "text documents" by title description). When changes are made to the original "text document", they are saved in Simpletext as a "text document" (not .rtf or .txt - these are OSX file descriptions).
The file can be read back by OSX Textedit, or by PC, with no problems. However, if the slightest changes are attempted in OSX on that "text document" (once back from your OS 9.2 changes ... OSX will only be able to save it again as a .rtf or .txt (plain text file) ... not a pure "text document" as made or corrected in OS 9.2.
I'm glad I still have Apple OSX "Classic" available for these kind of rare changes needed.
I have spent a few weeks now, trying to figure how to create/modify an existing pure "text document" using a Mac ... without relying on going to any PC text edit programs ... and this method of running it through the old Simpletext program in OS 9 finally worked out to be the answer this evening!
Message was edited by: DavidMac

HT2513 URL in iCal are always displayed in plain text when viewed in iCal but as URL if sent to an Outlook account. Does anyone know if this is expected behaviour?

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Dear Mr. Toad (my all-time favorite ride at Disneyland ;-) ..
Thanks so much for your detailed reply.. my netbook is in the bedroom, turned off.. I (so far) only use it in the evening, in the bedroom.. I've saved your response, and will try your suggestions, and let you know if they solve the problem I described. I really appreciate you taking the time to post such a detailed reply..
I can't answer your Thunderbird "configuration" questions, because I'm in the living room, using the crap Vista laptop, on which I plan to install Thunderbird, and then take Windoze Mail out in the street and drive over it a few times.. I'll get back to you one way or the other, and let you know if your instructions solved the problem, or not..
I don't understand why Thunderbird "out of the box", so to speak, simply doesn't forward HTML emails with embedded graphics, (like Outlook Excess, and Winblows Mail do).. without having to go through those steps. I personally HATE HTML email, but over the years, it's become more and more prevelant.. so it's a problem I must fix..
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Harv..

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