Re: [NTLK] How to read Newton E-mails?

From: Victor Rehorst (victor_at_newtontalk.net)
Date: Fri Sep 05 2003 - 12:30:16 PDT


Paul Guyot wrote:

> You can also uncheck Text only with SimpleMail/EnRoute. This will let
> anyone with a mail agent compatible with these on their Newton to get
> your sketches. The data is attached as a file with a .nwt suffix that
> happens to be NSOF (Newton Stream Object Format) data with a header
> and can be parsed by the NSOF to XML converter. However, the Ink
> format is unknown so we cannot really process the file on a desktop

Wow, really? There's no docs for raw ink? I wonder how SketchMail for
SimpleMail manages to convert it then (maybe there is a built-in function,
never mind)

> computer yet and extract the ink information (we can extract text
> with styles, outlines and a lot of Newton meta-data, though).

Are shapes possible yet? IIRC their format is pretty straightforward

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