Re: Forcing Black on RTF Text generated from NSAttributedString

FROM : Ali Ozer
DATE : Fri Dec 10 20:47:59 2004

I think if you put a variant of black in the attributed string that
doesn't compare isEqual: to [NSColor blackColor], it will get through. 
Simplest way might be to create a black with [NSColor
calibratedColorWithRed:green:blue:alpha:], rather than using [NSColor
blackColor].
Ali



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> From: "R. Scott Thompson" <<email_removed>>
> Date: December 9, 2004 9:56:02 AM PST
> To: Cocoa-Dev Development <<email_removed>>
> Subject: Forcing Black on RTF Text generated from NSAttributedString
>
> The default text color for an NSAttributedString is black.  If I
> extract RTF from a plain, black, string the resulting RTF doesn't have
> black in it's table, and it doesn't include a color directive that
> leads me to believe it should be marked as black.
>
> When I take that RTF data to a PC running our application what I get
> out is a gray looking text (for some reason).
>
> I'd like to force the text in my string which doesn't have a color
> associated with it, to use black.  I wrote some code that runs through
> the string and for every text range that doesn't have a color
> associated with it, it tries to set the color for that range to black.
>
> Unfortunately (or not) the addAttribute: routine is clever enough to
> figure out that I'm trying to add black as a color so it refuses to
> actually add the color to the text range.  If I check the string after
> my addition, the attribute for that range of text is still NULL.  :-(
>
> Is there any way to tell the attributed string "No really, I want to
> store black, explicitly, as the foreground color of this range of
> text.... I really, really do!"
>
> Scott
>
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