[AccessD] Writing raw RTF document using VBA

gustav

...you might take a look at Lebans RTF stuff ...he has code for copying RTF
to and from the clipboard and for processing the elements into a grid
control.

William Hindman
<http://www.freestateproject.org> - Next Year In The Free State!


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gustav Brock" <gustav at cactus.dk>
To: <accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
Cc: <accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Friday, October 31, 2003 12:33 PM
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Writing raw RTF document using VBA


> Hi all
>
> The client has got new budgets and is again asking for this:
>
> > My simple need (which I never got solved) was how to assemble an
> > rtf-formatted field from many records (essentially each an rtf
> > document) into one rtf document, stripping headers etc. from each
> > record and adding a header etc. to the final document.
>
> Does anybody have a clue how to attack it?
>
> It is for assembling a catalogue where each item in Access has it own
> small description in formatted text (bold, underline, sub/sup script
> only) into one rtf document which are read by the dtp people.
>
> Basically the task is to strip the header and the tail from the small
> rtf strings, concatenation these, then adding one header and one tail
> to create one finished document.
>
> /gustav
>
>
> > I once located these links to a compact list of codes (not sure of the
> > version) and some simple code examples:
>
> >   http://thorkildsen.no/faqsys/docs/rtf.txt
>
> >   http://www.codeguru.com/forum/showthread.php?threadid=233068
>
> > My simple need (which I never got solved) was how to assemble an
> > rtf-formatted field from many records (essentially each an rtf
> > document) into one rtf document, stripping headers etc. from each
> > record and adding a header etc. to the final document.
>
> > So if you come up with a routine for parsing an rtf string, at least
> > extracting the content including bold, underline, and italic
> > attributes, I would be pleased to see it.
>
> > Here's a link to a class in RealBasic for parsing a subset of rtf
> > formatted text. I guess you can download a trial version of RealBasic
> > to study it:
>
> >   http://www.belle-nuit.com/realbasic/rtfparser.html
>
> > In Java life is easier:
>
> >
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.1/docs/api/javax/swing/text/rtf/RTFEditorKit.html
>
> > /gustav
>
>
> >> Bryan's link points to v1.6 of the RTF spec.  But, if you're
interested, I
> >> was poking around and found a download link (watch for wrap) for v1.7.
>
> >
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=E5B8EBC2-6AD6-49F0-8C90-E4F763E3F04F&displaylang=en
>
> >> Mark
>
>
> >> RTF Files are just plain old ascii text. So Low level File I/O will
work to
> >> write it.
>
> >> The biggest challenge would be to get the text string correct before
writing
> >> them out to the file.
>
> >> Here is a link to the RTF spec.
>
> >
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/?url=/library/en-us/dnrtfspec/html/rtfspec.asp?frame=true
>
> >> As for PDF, here is the link to the PDF Specs.
>
> > http://partners.adobe.com/asn/acrobat/docs.jsp#filefmtspecs
>
> >> Bryan Carbonnell
> >> bryan_carbonnell at cbc.ca
>
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