Pasting as RTF

[James Moore]

If the app you're pasting into understands RTF then it will likely pull 
the RTF version off of the pasteboard. I believe that apps are supposed 
to prefer the richest representation that they can understand.

If you open a new mail window (in Mail) and its format is set to plain 
text then you should get the text version every time. If it's set to 
rich then you should get the RTF version every time.

I can't say what Entourage does with its mail windows or if you can 
force them into a plain text mode. If you can then I would expect it to 
grab the text version.


-James

Technical Support Engineer
The Omni Group



On Mar 2, 2004, at 3:42 AM, Jeremy Reichman wrote:

> I'm currently using OmniOutliner 2.2.6. I often need to copy and paste 
> outline into e-mail messages, but perhaps I haven't been doing much of 
> that lately. I never had a problem with it before, but now I am.
>
> Instead of getting *text* pasted into e-mail programs -- I'm using 
> Entourage, used to use Apple Mail (and still do, back and forth) -- I 
> get RTF. So I see the graphical disclosure triangles and bullets one 
> would see if one were to export OO docs to RTF. I don't get the dashes 
> and asterisks and other formatting I would expect when pasting to text 
> only.
>
> I also tried pasting into BBEdit 6.5, which I was sure would strip the 
> formatting. It did not. BBEdit displayed the RTF version of the 
> document.
>
> The only way I found quickly (I didn't try a lot) was to drop to 
> Terminal and run this command:
>
> 	pbpaste > ~/Desktop/text.txt
>
> ... and the resulting text file was plain text, thankfully. I opened 
> that, copied and pasted it, and got it into the e-mail message I was 
> composing.
>
> Is this now expected? Can I turn this off? (I couldn't see anything 
> relevant in the preferences.) I hardly ever need to paste RTF.
>
> Thanks!
>
> --
> Jeremy
>
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