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Add background color text styles to TextEdit
Authored by: fredblon on May 27, '05 03:57:56PM

Bad news : this is not fully supported by the system (yet ?)... try to copy and paste the text of the sample file into the body of a new mail : some colors are lost, others are unexpectedly expanded to entire lines.



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Authored by: Michel_X on May 28, '05 06:12:43AM
The purpose of this hints is only to edit share (funny and with word or line back colored) rtf readable by every MacOSX users.
The comments of FredBlon can be completed by the following observation about the system: The favorite Styles are not in a pref file attached to textEdit but in the unvisible .GlobalPreferences.plist xml file.
With caution, it is possible to edit this file with the Property List Editor (tag NSFavoriteStyles) i.e. to suppress an unwanted Styles created during the tests.
Discovered by a copy/paste from a html page, I agree : not all the background color are copied... it is why - as explained at the end of the attached doc ot the hints- to create the range of colors - it is necessary to use bbedit to edit and modify a reference rtf containing a range of colors and progressively complete the styles menu.

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Michel X

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