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by SparkOut » Sat Nov 08, 2025 11:10 pm
Here's an approach you might find actually quite simple (for some definition of simple)
Create a template rtf file with the header and footer layout you want.
In the places you want content generated from your app to be inserted, put a placeholder label surrounded by doubled square brackets.
After you have created the rtf file, open it in a text editor. Make sure your placeholders are surrounded by the [[ ]] markers, it could be that the rtf formatting code has inserted itself between the square brackets and the placeholder label, so if necessary, move the brackets to the correct place immediate surrounding the placeholder label.
If you want, you can import the template as a "binfile" and set a custom property to that data, for simple portability, assuming you don't regularly want to edit the template layout/styling.
Put your desired content into variables named to match the placeholders, and call the merge function. Export the returned content to another binfile and you will have an rtf document with headers and footers. The styling of the headers and footers from LC may not translate very well, at least colours anyway, I noticed. I'm sure more analysis of the rtf format would reveal a better way, but it might be easier to style the header and footer in the template as you wish, then leave the variable content from LC to merge as plain text, and inherit the styling from the document. The body rtf text should cope with most... I think. I've not tested exhaustively.
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SparkOut on Sun Nov 09, 2025 5:10 am, edited 2 times in total.
