Ah...I remember having to use Word 2000 last
year, anything more current REALLY effed up the .rtf in the files.
roymeo
At 09:48 AM 8/16/2005, you wrote:
When i was doing a project and working qith Word files i had the exact
someproblem, but not all spaces appeared as square boxes. I thought at the
time that it had something to do with a word quirkiness of some kind, the
only way i "figured out" to solve this was erasing them one by one directly
on Director, anything else i tried, i ended up with those dreadful boxes,
but if youre importing text dinamycally i guess doing it by hand won´t help.
Only thing i can think of is, if you have access to the original files, is
save them in a very plain text editor like notepad or something like that,
so you try to avoid th insertion of "ghost characters" in the file. But
other than that i don´t know what you can do. FYI, I tried saving the files
in a simple text editor and anyway i ended up with the squares, i guess it
has something to do with Director and text formats, maybe if you import the
text as .txt you can solve the problem, but then you´ll have the problem of
formatting the text once it is in Director. Hope i shed some light on the
proble, but for me was a really big one and couldn´t figure out a way to
avoid it automatically on import
Diego Landro
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan Sheridan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "lingo-l" <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2005 1:26 PM
Subject: <lingo-l> RTF files - making me cringe!
> Hi List,
>
> I am working on a previously developed project that reads in RTF (rich
> text files) dynamically via XML - the problem that I am having is that
> when director is displaying them I am ending up with square characters
> or hook like characters instead of spaces... this is occuring on both
> Mac and PC!
>
> When you read the files outside of director the appear as you would
> expect them to with no weird characters!
>
> Anyone got any suggestions? I thought it might be the format they have
> been supplied in - but I am now strongly thinking it is a Director
thing!!!
>
> Any alternative solutions would be kindly accepted! I have until 6am GMT
> to figure this out!
>
> Cheers,
>
> Dan ;)
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