rtfd files - coverstion options

You can, of course, select Save As Webarchive, though I think this is even less useful the the rtfd. Did you know that if you hold down the Control key and click on the rtfd file (the equivalent of right click), you can select Show Package Contents? The rtfd format isn't actually a file at all, it is a folder and inside the folder are all the graphics plus a rich text format file. Does that help?
Francine


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Word can't read them because they are NOT files, they are folders. The rtfd extension tells the Finder to display the item as a file (there are a number of extensions that do this, the most common is .app). When this is the case you can still open the folder using the Show Package item in the Contextual Menu.

If you double click the webarchive it will open in your browser and you can see the HTML using View Source, even copy it to use it somewhere else. This isn't actually especially useful though, as the images are buried somewhere inside the file itself, so if your goal is translate the whole thing into a MS Word document there is no easy way I can think of to do that.

What is it you really want to do? If you just want to save a web page for yourself, perhaps a better option is to use your browser to save it as a PDF file:

1. Go to Print
2. From the PDF drop-down menu at the bottom select Save as PDF
3. You can then open in any program that will view PDFs, you can also send it to a Windows machine and use the PDF program on that machine to view it

Unfortunately if there is a background image, that gets lost in translation.

So, why do you want to use Word? There may be some other option that would accomplish what you want, if I knew what you really are trying to do.
Francine


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You might want to check out Firefox. It has an option to save a web page as a complete web page, that is it produces a folder with all the images in it, and an html file that contains all the text and html code, and references the images in the folder. Not sure how iSilo would run the conversion, but this might be closer to what you need.
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Sorry if I wasn't clear: you would need to open the original web site in Firefox and save it from there, rather than doing a copy and paste into TextEdit and save from there. The webarchive is a Safari only format. If you open the original web site in Firefox and then save as "complete web page" you get a normal HTML page and folder full of the graphics files.
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