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Introduction to Text Input and Output

Contents:

Who Should Read This Document
Organization of This Document
See Also

Text Input and Output describes how to use the Cocoa’s text system’s built-in support for storing text in files.

Who Should Read This Document

You should read this document if you need to understand how to read and write text files from Cocoa text objects.

Organization of This Document

This document includes the following articles:

• “Text Input and Output Formats” describes the file formats that the text system can read and write.

• “Using Text Input and Output” presents code fragments that illustrate how to read and write text files from an NSTextView object.

See Also

For more information, refer to the following documents:

• Attributed Strings Programming Guide describes the NSAttributedString objects that manage sets of text attributes, such as font and kerning, associated with character strings in rich text.

• Text Attributes describes the text-related attributes maintained by the Cocoa text system.

• Text Attachment Programming Topics for Cocoa discusses the way the text system handles text attachments stored in the RTFD file format.

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