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Mac Forum / Applications / Eudora / April 2007Copying formatted msg text, Eudora->RTF
Apologies if I asked this once before and have forgotten: Can one Copy (or otherwise Export or Save) formatted text (e.g., text containing italicized, bolded, font or size changed, maybe colored words) from the msg section of a received or self-composed email into an RTF application such as TextEdit, with the formatting preserved? > Apologies if I asked this once before and have forgotten: > > Can one Copy (or otherwise Export or Save) formatted text (e.g., text > containing italicized, bolded, font or size changed, maybe colored > words) from the msg section of a received or self-composed email into an > RTF application such as TextEdit, with the formatting preserved? Does Eudora have a Save or Save As option that saves the message externally without reformatting it? If so, you should be able to import such a Saved message into whatever text or word processor you want. HTH  SignatureWolf "Don't believe everything you think." (Maxine) > Can one Copy (or otherwise Export or Save) formatted text (e.g., text > containing italicized, bolded, font or size changed, maybe colored > words) from the msg section of a received or self-composed email into an > RTF application such as TextEdit, with the formatting preserved? I didn't know, so I just tried it and yes, it worked. Some formatting wasn't preserved exactly (web page links), but most of it was. SignatureKathy > > Can one Copy (or otherwise Export or Save) formatted text (e.g., text > > containing italicized, bolded, font or size changed, maybe colored [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > I didn't know, so I just tried it and yes, it worked. Some formatting > wasn't preserved exactly (web page links), but most of it was. I'm having less luck. Applying Select All and Copy to formatted text in a Eudora message body, then pasting into an RTF-formatted TextEdit document preserves color but not italics or bolding. Saving the Eudora message saves only a plain text, not an RTF file. --------- Hold on! -- My default for screen font in Eudora is Geneva -- which has no italics or bold versions -- although Eudora somehow manages to display the italicized and bolded Geneva text as slanted and thickened characters in its window quite nicely -- ??? So, if I change my default Eudora screen font to Helvetica (which does have italics and bold fonts) all of this formatting does carry over quite nicely (via Copy and Paste) into TextEdit. [But, Helvetica doesn't look nearly as nice on screen in Eudora as does Geneva . . .] > [But, Helvetica doesn't look nearly as nice on screen in Eudora as does > Geneva . . .] I used to like Mishawaka which was supplied with Eudora. It didn't seem to work so well with OS X, so I have changed to Lucida Grande. This looks ok for normal text, but things that rely on fixed width fonts are a problem.... David > I used to like Mishawaka which was supplied with Eudora. It didn't seem to > work so well with OS X, so I have changed to Lucida Grande. This looks ok for > normal text, but things that rely on fixed width fonts are a problem.... I'm using Monaco. It's a nice, clear, fixed width font. SignaturePeter > > I used to like Mishawaka which was supplied with Eudora. It didn't seem to > > work so well with OS X, so I have changed to Lucida Grande. This looks ok > > for > > normal text, but things that rely on fixed width fonts are a problem.... > > I'm using Monaco. It's a nice, clear, fixed width font. Ditto. Roberta SignatureRoberta Millstein usenet@spamaway.rlm.net Remove "spamaway" to reply -- Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com |
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