Write/Read NSMutableAttributedString to Plist

Question

OK, here we are :

• I've got an NSTextView
• I'm getting it's NSMutableAttributedString content
• I'm unable to read/write it to plist

By using Rob's code ( Saving custom attributes in NSAttributedString ), I've made some progress (I'm managing to write the data to disk), but I cannot recover it (= NSKeyedUnarchiver returns nil).

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Encoding :

// where MAS --> NSMutableAttributedString

NSData* stringData = [NSKeyedArchiver archivedDataWithRootObject:MAS];

Decoding :

NSMutableAttributedString* mas = (NSMutableAttributedString*)[NSKeyedUnarchiver unarchiveObjectWithData:dat];

Any ideas? Any possible workaround (even if not with NSCoder, which I doubt it works with RTFs...) would be welcome!

Answer 1

And here's how it was solved.

NSAttributedString -> NSData :

NSData* j = [(NSMutableAttributedString*)MAS RTFDFromRange:NSMakeRange(0,[[MAS string] length]) 
                                        documentAttributes:nil];

NSData -> NSAttributedString

NSMutableAttributedString* mas = [[NSMutableAttributedString alloc] initWithRTFD:dat 
                                                              documentAttributes:nil];

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Simple as that.