[Virtualacorn-list] File types between RISC OS and Mac

[David Pitt]

Tim Powys-Lybbe, on 6 Jul, wrote:

> This could be a problem anywhere between VRPC, RISC OS, MimeMap and Mac
> OS.  So I'm starting here!
> 
> I am creating SVG files in ArtWorks to go on a web-site.  I have about 70
> to do and am a little over half way.  The files are created within
> Artworks by doing Shift-Ctrl-S which brings up the SVG save window and
> then dragging the SVG file icon to the directory for each design.  This
> gives a file name of <art-works-filename>/svg and a file type of SVG.  I
> copy this file into a destination directory in RISC OS for all these SVG
> files, plus the odd html file.  Eventually the contents of this
> destination directory will be copied to the web server site.
> 
> This is done in a VRPC window on my Mac machine.
> 
> I have another window open on the Mac which is a filer window pointed
> directly at that same destination window using the Mac OS (10.10.3)
> software.  But on this Mac filer window the file appears with the name of
> <art-works-filename>.svg.aad where <AAD> is the hex number of the risc os
> file type as on MimeMap.  No Mac program will handle these files, not even
> the html files that address them as SVG files.  So I have to delete the
> file suffix of <.aad> from the file name in the Mac filer window and all
> is well.
> 

A suitable entry in this file may assist.

/Applications/VirtualAcorn/VirtualRPC-AdjustSA/VirtualRPC.app/Contents/PlugIns/hostfs.bundle/Contents/Resources/extensions.txt

As tested from !Draw a save of the form SVG/svg appears in the Mac Finder
without the aad suffix.


> At that point the SVG file type in RISC OS is changed to Text and RISC OS
> cannot handle it, but that is no loss as I have no program in RISC OS that
> will actually read SVG files.
> 
> Is Mimemap, or VRPC,  doing what it should?
> 
> Notes: ------
> 
> If I save a HTML file in RISC OS, it remains a HTML file in the Mac filer,
> so something is possible.
> 
> I am using SVG as it allows others to enlarge these files with no
> pixellation distortion.
> 
> I cannot use PDF files as the Firefox browser on my Mac won't handle PDF
> files (dunno yet about Firefox on Windows).  Safari and Chrome don't have
> this problem.
> 
> VRPC version 1.7.0, RISC OS 6.20, Mac OS as above.
> 


-- 
David Pitt