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From: gannholm@apple.com (Martin Gannholm)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: Exporting formatted text in HC 2.0
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Date: 29 Jun 90 06:25:07 GMT
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>Now that HyperCard 2.0 has been announced, can anyone out there who has
>worked with the beta version (or anyone else, for that matter) tell me if
>users who format, say, a text field with underlines, italics, etc. will be
>able to export that FORMATTED text in any way?

Yes, you can get the styled TextEdit record from an XCMD via a new XCMD 
callback. The XCMD can then do whatever it wants with it (write it to a 
file in RTF format etc). No built-in way though, other than printing with 
styles...

Martin Gannholm
Apple Computer

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