<< I made a very simple Report a few years ago for Karen that manipulated RTF or rather converted regular text to formatted text by adding the formatting info to the regular text and then concantenating the whole mess by adding the file header info and closures. You will find a whole bunch of info about this subject and you're correct, it's non-trivial, but making a plugin to do it is OK, but it is still a kludge.
>> It's hard enough when you're starting with plain text and encoding it into RTF. But if you're starting with RTF you have to be aware that the text you get can be laced with RTF encoding _inside_ the text. Without using the RTF control itself, it's almost impossible to chop this stuff up and still be sure that the bits you extract are still valid RTF (with the right closing codes, and so on). I did something like this once and eventually gave up, using intermediate RTF controls to let Microsoft manage the operations on that benighted encoding system. I've never seen a third-party RTF parsing library. If they were to expose the entire RTF API, it would also be possible to create RTF toolbars directly on one's form without having to resort to opening the separate editor. -- Larry
