RTF not readable by OS X TextEdit
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Hi,
I don't have access to a Mac OS X system to test teh above
problem. AurigaDoc uses jfor (www.jfor.org) for rtf
generation. I have already asked about this problem to the
jfor guys but even they don't have access to a Mac either.
The question has been asked on the jfor list.
In order to help me locate the problem you can carry out
these steps
> send me the error messages you get while rtf
generation/viewing.
> Confirm that AurigaDoc is configured correctly by
converting a simple xml doc to pdf/rtf.
> Try viewing the rtf document in a different editor/viewer
if you have.
> Try converting a simple xml document to rtf
> Send me your problematic xml doc(if possible)
> Also you could try downloading jfor and run the samples
provided with it to see if they work properly
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> send me the error messages you get while rtf
generation/viewing.
When viewing, I see no error messages. TextEdit simply does
not open the file for viewing or editing. I ran TextEdit
from the command line, but saw no error messsages. I ran
both "tail -f /var/log/system.log" and the Mac OS X
"console" application, but saw no error messages printed
there either.
I re-generated sample.rtf from sample.xml. The generated RTF
file has the same size as sample.rtf. When I ran the
conversion, I saw the following error messages:
Converting to rtf ......
jfor V0.5.1 - see http://www.jfor.org
Converting XSL:FO file '1023716893.xml' to RTF output
'sample.rtf'...
jfor.INFO:jfor V0.5.1 - setting up conversion...
jfor.INFO:Parsing xsl:fo document...
jfor.WARNING:addChild: container already closed
(parent=org.jfor.jfor.rtflib.rtfdoc.RtfList
child=org.jfor.jfor.rtflib.rtfdoc.RtfListItem)
jfor.WARNING:addChild: container already closed
(parent=org.jfor.jfor.rtflib.rtfdoc.RtfList
child=org.jfor.jfor.rtflib.rtfdoc.RtfListItem)
jfor.WARNING:addChild: container already closed
(parent=org.jfor.jfor.rtflib.rtfdoc.RtfList
child=org.jfor.jfor.rtflib.rtfdoc.RtfListItem)
jfor.INFO:Writing out RTF...
jfor.INFO:Write bookmark 'what_is_auriga_doc'.
jfor.INFO:Write bookmark 'installation'.
jfor.INFO:Write bookmark 'usage'.
jfor.INFO:Write bookmark 'documentation_conventions'.
jfor.INFO:Write bookmark 'limitations'.
jfor.INFO:Write bookmark 'changes'.
jfor.INFO:Write bookmark 'todolist'.
jfor.INFO:Done converting xsl:fo to RTF.
jfor.DEBUG:conversion took 1622 milliseconds.
Done writing RTF output 'sample.rtf'.
> Confirm that AurigaDoc is configured correctly by
converting a simple xml doc to pdf/rtf.
Generating PDF works fine. The output file has the same size
as sample.pdf.
> Try viewing the rtf document in a different editor/viewer
if you have.
I don't have any RTF readers on my Mac other than TextEdit.
When I view sample.rtf in MS Word 97, I see a few problems.
First, after section names like "What Is AurigaDoc" and
"Introduction" I
see an upper-case accented E (the accent is a circumflex).
Also, in the "Installation" section of the sample document
there are three numbered items. In MS Word, I see five
items; the unnumbered lines in the sample document are
numbered in the MS word version, like this (where "(E)" is a
capital "E" with a circumflex accent):
Installation(E) To install aurigadoc follow the given
steps:-
1 Untar the...
2 tar -xvzf...
3 This will create...
4 Set the AURIGADOC_HOME...
5 Add aurigadoc/bin...
Finally, no page headers or footers appear anywhere.
> Try converting a simple xml document to rtf
Done; see the error messages above.
> Send me your problematic xml doc(if possible)
You already have two: sample.xml and user-guide.xml.
> Also you could try downloading jfor and run the samples
provided with it to see if they work properly
I'll try that if I am able. It will require more than
downloading JFor; I
will also need to get Xerces.
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Hi,
Download the attached file (test.rtf) and try opening it in
your viewer/editor and let me know if it works.
Also not that headers and footer are not yer supported in rtf.
Also let me know if you see wany strange characters in any
of your viewer(like the E you mentioned earlier)
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The file looks OK on Windows: I see three pages. The first one displays
the title, author, company, revision, and last modified date, and nothing
else. The second page displays the "Test Section" section. I see no
funny characters. However, there are no blank lines between paragraphs.
There are carriage returns, but no space between the paragraphs. The
third page of test.rtf is completely blank.
Using the Mac OS X application TextEdit, I still can not read the file.
Another Test
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Hi,
Try another rtf file i am attaching (test2.rtf). It is a simple file
with no sections/bookmarks.
The probelm here and jfor is that we not have acces to the
kind of system you are using and so we cannot figure out
what is wrong. You could try downloading jfor and test the
samples and if they also dont work maybe post the problem
on jfor list as well. The problem may be that your application
(TextEdit) is uanble to understand some rtf construct
generated by jfor.
Also make a simpele rtf file like the one attached and email it
to me. I will try comparing the document generated by both
jfor and your app and see if anything makes sense.