Hi James, Am 09.06.2011 um 19:29 schrieb James Hurley:
>> Message: 10 >> Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2011 16:20:42 +0200 >> From: Mark Schonewille <[email protected]> >> To: How to use LiveCode <[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: Importing Word documents >> Message-ID: <[email protected]> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii >> Jim, >> >> get shell("textutil -convert rtf" && quote & "path/to/file.docx" & quote) >> This will produce a file path/to/file.rtf, which you can read with LiveCode. >> >> -- >> Best regards, >> >> Mark Schonewille > > Mark, > > This doesn't work for me. It appears to recognize the file name but "it" > comes up empty. > Does this work on Word files or just Text files? IT will only contain the RESULT of the shell command! It will convert the Word file to a RTF file in the same folder: >> This will produce a file path/to/file.rtf, which you can read with LiveCode. :-) > Jim Best Klaus -- Klaus Major http://www.major-k.de [email protected] _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
