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Posted: **Mon May 15, 2017 5:07 pm**

Hi,

among other scripts I tried:

put 3444 into ii
put "/Users/pd/Desktop/TEST.rtf" into TestPath
put "¶" into Sep
put the rtfText of fld "A" of cd ii of this stack & Sep ¬
  & the rtfText of fld "B" of cd ii of this stack & Sep ¬
  & the rtfText of fld "C" of cd ii of this stack & Sep ¬
  into URL ("file:" & TestPath)

and failed.

I reckon, one of you has already developed an elegant solution.

Regards,

Peter

Posted: **Mon May 15, 2017 6:22 pm**

Hmm.

I get no errors when I try this with a document created in textEdit in a non-RTF format, like "Word" or "odt". I modified slightly to make it easier:

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on mouseUp
   answer file "DD" --to make sure format is sound
   put it into testpath
     put random(999) into url ("file:" & testPath)
end mouseUp

But when I try this with a document created with textEdit in "RTF" format, no errors are thrown, but the document cannot be opened. Same thing with:

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   open file testPath for text write
   write random(999) to file testPath
   close file testPath

Someone will know why.

Craig Newman

Posted: **Mon May 15, 2017 8:10 pm**

try binfile? (it *shouldn't* need it, I think but some vague inkling is trying to stir my memory about something)

Posted: **Mon May 15, 2017 8:17 pm**

I wonder if the problem may be that RTF contains a header, and perhaps having multiple headers within the file invalidates it.

You could use another format like htmlText to aggregate the fields into another, or into the templateField, before exporting.

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