+1 (or -1 however you look at it.) RTF is a total PITA when making edits. Tedious is an understatement.
Rick is right, do it right the first time. It will save you many, many headaches. G! On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 9:45 PM, Rick Root <[email protected]> wrote: > > I recently had to write a script to generate RTF documents from data > in a database. > > Creating the template was an interesting experience because the RTF > format seems to do all kinds of wacky stuff if you erase stuff, cut, > paste, etc. Two things I found. Making your RTF template with MS > Word, not with Wordpad, and #2 - don't make any mistakes creating your > template. Don't erase anything. Just type. What i ended up doing > was making my rtf template by opening a document and typing in stuff > like VARIABLE001 VARIABLE002 VARIABLE003, and then just doind a > find/replace on the document to replace the placeholders with my data. > > I had initiall tried pasting in VARIABLEXXX then going through and > changing the "XXX" to the numbers, only to find that for some reason > when I was done, "VARIABLE001" didn't appear in the RTF source as I > would expect. > > Rick > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:337449 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
