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At 1969/12/31 19:00
Ken wrote:

Belatedly, you could use the following to make the textedit document:

make new document with properties {text:the clipboard as «class RTF »}

It assumes that the formatted text is on the clipboard, i.e. With an applescript, select all and copy, and that TextEdit is in rich text mode. I try to avoid using any UI scripting if I can.

I like the shell script and will have to try and figure out how the perl component works. Thanks.

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