iOS Objective C: Display RTF document

Question

I want to show a RTF document in a view. This document will be developed in Microsoft Word and will contains images.

What is the best way to do this using standard routines provided?

I would really like sample code to load a RTF document from the bundle. Kind Regards, Jason

Barthold

here is an answer to a different question that may be of use to you. The idea is to use UIWebView. – Prowl

That is a real clash of cultures, because RTF is a proprietary Microsoft standard, and a very old one at that. But why is a Word application saving a document in RTF format? Did someone think it was a good idea? – Studer

Thanks very much for the comments and answers. – Barthold

Answer 1

UIWebView opens .rtf documents. Try something like

NSURL *rtfUrl = [[NSBundle mainBundle] URLForResource:@"MyFileName" withExtension:@"rtf"];
NSURLRequest *request = [NSURLRequest requestWithURL:rtfUrl];
[_webview loadRequest:request];

See the documentation for UIWebView file types.

Moton

Thank you very much. I'm going to give this a go. – Barthold

In my case, I had to change @".rtf" to @"rtf" otherwise URLForResource:withExtension: would return nil. – Eclampsia

Answer 2

If you need to do this in Swift instead of Obective-C here's a Swift equivalent of @pmf's answer as a function you can call.

func loadRTFDocument() {
    let urlPath =  NSBundle.mainBundle().pathForResource("TermsOfUse", ofType: "rtf")
    let url = NSURL.fileURLWithPath(urlPath!)
    let request = NSURLRequest.init(URL: url)
    self.webView.loadRequest(request)
}

Whitby