export to plain text fixed width

John DeSoi jd at icx.net
Sun Dec 5 16:00:31 PST 2004


I still can't get this to work in OO3. Any clues?

Thanks


John DeSoi, Ph.D.


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	From: 	  support at omnigroup.com
	Subject: 	Re: OmniOutliner 2.2.6 (v69.6) Feedback (license 
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	Date: 	September 23, 2004 7:21:42 PM EDT
	To: 	  desoi at icx.net

John it looks like you should be able to do what you describe but its 
actually broken in Outliner. We've fixed this bug for Outliner 3. Sorry 
for the inconvenience.

-James

Technical Support Engineer
The Omni Group


On Sep 22, 2004, at 8:19 PM, John DeSoi wrote:

> Hi James,
>
> On Sep 20, 2004, at 4:51 PM, James M wrote:
>
>> John, I suggest you post your applescript questions on the Outliner 
>> users list. There are some folks on there that are real applescript 
>> pros (unlike me) and they typically respond quickly to questions. The 
>> link to the mailing list is
>>
>
> Unfortunately, no responses. I just need the magic word(s) to replace 
> "text" below to get the right format. It is not in the docs. Not in 
> the AppleScript dictionary. I have tried guessing. Surely somebody 
> there knows :).
>
> Thanks!
>
> John DeSoi, Ph.D.
>
>
> ====
> tell application "OmniOutliner"
> 	set doc to front document
> 	set thePath to path of doc
> 	save doc as "text" in (POSIX path of thePath) & ".txt"
> end tell
>
>
>
> On Sep 16, 2004, at 12:38 PM, John DeSoi wrote:
>
>> I've tried and tried and cannot figure out how to export my document 
>> in a script with the "Plain Text (Fixed Width)" option available in 
>> the export dialog. I can only get the tab indented version which adds 
>> additional characters.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> John DeSoi, Ph.D.
>>
>>
>




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