换行或回车返回iPad RTF文件

Question

I have an iPad app that creates Word Documents from data entered.

Originally i was using html word documents but these wont open in Pages.

I switch to using a RTF file which works for both.

I have a template where i replace sections of text like so:

[template replaceOccurrencesOfString:@"**DATE**" withString:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@",startDate] options:NSCaseInsensitiveSearch range:NSMakeRange(0, [template length])];

I can replace the text fine and save as expected.

However the carriage return \\n new line character is ignored. I have tried replacing the \\n with \\r \\r\\n and \\par to no avail

What do i need to replace the carriage return so that it works once saved. Currently it is ignored.

Thank

Dan

Failure of that - a way to create Word documents that work on Both Pages and Word would be great

Answer 1

In word \\r and \\n should be replaced by the ASCII characters 10 and 13. I'm not sure what language you are using, but chr(10) and chr(13) are likely candidates.

http://www.asciitable.com/

Answer 2

Since you asked for possible alternatives, there is a web service you can call ( Docmosis ) which provides the ability to create doc/rtf/other documents from Objective-C and stream back to the device (and/or email/store etc). You need to be net-connected and happy with the external dependency but it can save you a lot of time (they have an Objective-C sdk). Please note I work for the company that created Docmosis.