Fixing RTF Documents

[HunterBoss]

Based on what I've seen on the 360works website and on this forum, I think I can do it.

We have a vendor that generates RTF files. We're happy with about 95+% of what comes out of the system. As it's essentially always the same issues, I was thinking Scribe would do the trick.

We need to do the following:

1. Start with the RTF file. (These will always be called something different. We can put each RTF in the same subdirectory to make the first part easier.)

2. Replace certain phrases (there will be more than 20) with phrases of our own. As an illustration, but not a real example -- "Thou Shalt" is replaced with "they will" and "Next preceding" is replaced with "earliest possible."

3. The font and size of the font is changed to something else

4. A PDF is created. The name of the PDF is the same as the RTF.

It seems like there's more steps then listed above, but this is what we're looking for results.

Are my assumptions correct?

Thanks

Christopher

[Smef]

Scribe can read from RTF files, but is not able to write to RTF documents at this time. Scribe is also not able to change text formatting in any supported document type.

[HunterBoss]

David

So, the replacement part, #2, is right. Right?

Can we "send" the text to a Word document that is formatted the way we want?

Do we need to have the file in Word already, or can we send the output to Word?

Is there something within Scribe that can then turn the Word document into PDF?

thanks everyone

Christopher

[Smef]

The only part of your four steps that scribe can do anything about is the second one, but it can't write to rtf files. You can write to txt, docx, xlsx, or pdf files.

With a word file you need to have a word document with the formatting that you want and then either fill in content control fields or do a find and replace. Scribe is not able to control any formatting in the target document, such as font, text size, or color.

[HunterBoss]

David,

Thanks

I think I saw in another thread that Scribe is only able to write to DOCX Word files in Windows. Is that right?

Looks like I'll have a DOCX file set up with the correct formatting and then print that to PDF.

If I may hijack my own thread -- I'm wondering if it can do something else I was hoping for. In looking through the website, I think it can. I'm going to have multiple RTF files -- possibly in Super Container -- can I "combine" those multiple RTF files into one PDF in Scribe? No formatting, no find and replace, just simple combine in the right order.

Christopher

[Smef]

All of Scribe's functionality is the same on both windows and mac. There is no difference between Scribe running on windows and Scribe running on mac. In docx files you can either do a find or replace or fill in a content control field. Content control fields can only be CREATED in Microsoft Office 2007 and later on Windows, but scribe can write to them on either platform.

Scribe is not capable of doing any file merging in any file type and it cannot generate PDF documents.