Hey guys, looking for help with an Applescript that can change a .RTF to a .TXT with line breaks.
I have an Applescript that will go from a .DOC to a plain .TXT but haven't found anything to get from the .RTF to a .TXT wth line breaks.
I'm doing this for Avid's Script Sync.
Thanks for the help.
iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.1), OS 9 rulez!
Thank you for the reply.
That script makes a plain TXT file but I need to be able to make a TXT with line breaks. Is there a marker or flag that I could use to get that script to make the TXT with line breaks?
Ok, you obviously mean something specific by "line breaks" that you're not being clear about. are you looking for a specific kind of line ending: Mac style carriage return (CR) ending? Windows style carriage return line feed (CR/LF) endings, unix style line feed (LF) endings? textutil provides LF by default (it's a unix utility after all); if you need a different line ending you'll need to pipe it through tr or modify it via applescript after you've done the conversion
Exactly. For Avid they tell you to make a TXT file with line breaks using Word. Basically you save as Plain Text with line breaks.
Cool so then what you're saying is I could do a 2 step process where the first one makes a TXT file and then I would change it using a script to make a Mac style line break or a Windows one?
There's a unix utility called textutil that can do this conversion. you can call it from applescript as follows:
do shell script "textutil -convert txt /path/to/foo.rtf"
yes; maybe even a one step process.
Applescript batch convert .RTF to .TXT with line breaks
