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EnrightEnright
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Legacy User

Post by EnrightEnright » Tue Aug 30, 2016 4:04 pm

I just renewed the Indy license for one year.
I am a legacy user and only update some former HCard stacks from time to time (all for in house use).
Still using Vs 6.5 (higher versions break a lot of old things).

One thing I need is WordReport, which seems to be orphaned.
WordReport requires a commercial license.

So am I stuck using 6.5 forever and paying $699 annually for this right?
Does anyone know any way to output RTF to Word (or Pages)?

Thanks!

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Re: Legacy User

Post by ClipArtGuy » Tue Aug 30, 2016 8:01 pm

I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems like you could use LiveCode 6.5 Community Edition (free) for this, as you are using it for in-house development use.

http://downloads.livecode.com/livecode/

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Re: Legacy User

Post by [-hh] » Tue Aug 30, 2016 9:09 pm

... and you could also try (assuming you are on MacOS)

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on mouseUp
  put "/Users/admin/Documents/test.rtf" into tFileName
  put the RTFtext of fld 1 into url ("file:" & tFileName)
  -- OR use any other existing RTF file tFileName
  get shell("textutil -convert doc " & tFileName)
end mouseUp
The output will be "/Users/admin/Documents/test.doc", a MSWord document.
Textutil does with my tests here a good job for that.
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EnrightEnright
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Re: Legacy User

Post by EnrightEnright » Tue Aug 30, 2016 9:19 pm

Terrific! Thanks for the help.
Very simple....

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