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Text Edit's usefulness DESTROYED by its IMPROVEMENT?!?
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Join Date: Mar 2001
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Text Edit is an incredibly helpful, low-overhead utility for so many things. In Jaguar I really appreciated that I could copy web page material and keep the text formating so nicely in .rtf
Now, in Panther (?maybe before?) there is .rtfd
The good and the bad: that means that if there are little (or eve big) graphics in the text that I copy from Safari, they'll appear in Text Edit. Pretty cool! Except (if I understand right) the .rtfd format for the resulting Text Edit file is then rather complex (actually 2 files? one with graphics).
If I accidentally copy some graphics amongst the text (even ones invisible in the TextEdit doc like 1-bit gif), then I canNOT save the doc as .rtf - must be a .rtfd.
Okay, I could live with this IF there were a command to *REMOVE all GRAPHICS* from the doc. Then I could save it efficiently as a .rtf doc. I have yet to find such a command - or a simple CLEANING command. Anybody else find this annoying at times (esp. with tiny, hard to see-and-cut graphics strewn about the Text Edit's pages)? Anybody got a workaround for the cleaning process? Thanks.
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TOMBSTONE: "He's trashed his last preferences"
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Nasrudin sat on a river bank when someone shouted to him from the opposite side: "Hey! how do I get across?" "You are across!" Nasrudin shouted back.
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Thanks  for the link to textSAOP, Developer, however, installing a $20 piece of software that asks my system be restarted after installation is not a very happy alternative to a feature that I think Text Edit should have to begin. 
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TOMBSTONE: "He's trashed his last preferences"
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Addicted to MacNN
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Change it. The source of TextEdit comes with the developer tools.
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Nasrudin sat on a river bank when someone shouted to him from the opposite side: "Hey! how do I get across?" "You are across!" Nasrudin shouted back.
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Senior User
Join Date: Nov 2000
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Or you can grab the old TextEdit from your Jaguar discs using Pacifist, I'm assuming.
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Moderator  Join Date: Apr 2001
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Format --> 'Make Plain Text'
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The .rtfd was present in Jaguar as well. Perhaps earlier, too.
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The RTFD format was in Mac OS X Public Beta if I recall correctly, so... old news. 
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Posting Junkie
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An .rtfd document is a rich text document that contains one or more files within its text. You can think of the “d” in .rtfd as standing for “document.”
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I could take Sean Connery in a fight... I could definitely take him.
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Professional Poster
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RTFDs are in fact bundles - you can extract the text (including formatting) without the images by right-clicking the file and choosing "Show Package contents."
Inside you'll find all the images and a file called TXT.rtf that you can copy out of the bundle and use as you see fit.
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Thanks, Diggory...
Now THERE's some awesomely useful info! Maybe that's common knowledge, but it's a god-send to me!
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TOMBSTONE: "He's trashed his last preferences"
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