#Macjournal rtfd files for mac#

The applescript wizard Yvan Koenig ( link) has very kindly provided a useful applescript for Pages '09 to automatically convert batches of RTF and RTFD files into Word or PDF. If you have a lot of RTFD files to convert, then I recommend using an applescript to automate the process. I have succesfully converted thousands of RTFD files containing images into Microsoft Word (.doc) format.

#Macjournal rtfd files for mac#

As you pointed out, the solutions suggested by MrHoffman and Etresoft are incorrect.Ī solution for my original post for this thread: use Apple's Pages for Mac (part of the iWork '09 Suite). The command-line 'textutil' app strips out images and so is useless for my purposes. converting to HTML, but that creates more than a single file (an HTML file plus a folder containing the images)

the command-line 'textutil' converter, but that creates ascii files that are necessarily stripped of all images I've Googled for a solution to this but no-one else is talking about it, with the exception of: doc, it seems to me that I should be able to automate those steps using AppleScript or Automator. Given that I can open an RTFD file, copy/paste it's content (images and text) to a new blank Microsoft Word document and save it as. I disagree because its fiddly and hack-like rather than simple, recognizable and practical like a. I'll qualify this by acknowleding that since RTFD files are OS X Packages, they show up in Windows as a folder containing image files and an RTF file some people conclude that this is acceptable since, strictly speaking, its readable by windows. I want to be able to access the contents of these files on platforms other than OS X (eg: Windows). Is it possible to convert RTFD-format files to Microsoft Word (doc) format - without losing images?Īs a longtime Mac user, I have a multitude of RTF and RTFD files.