James, If "it" is empty, in other words if the shell function doesn't return a value, it means that the textutil command didn't produce any errors. Have a look at the folder containing the original file. It should also contain the new file.
-- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer KvK: 50277553 New: Download the Installer Maker Plugin 1.6 for LiveCode here http://qery.us/ce On 9 jun 2011, at 19:29, James Hurley wrote: >> >> Message: 10 >> Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2011 16:20:42 +0200 >> From: Mark Schonewille <m.schonewi...@economy-x-talk.com> >> To: How to use LiveCode <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> >> Subject: Re: Importing Word documents >> Message-ID: <dcf3260a-5b5c-40b4-becc-4785230e6...@economy-x-talk.com> >> 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? > > Jim > _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
