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Asked: 2026-05-14T22:09:10+00:00

I need to be able to convert RTF or HTML to Markdown-syntaxed plain text

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I need to be able to convert RTF or HTML to Markdown-syntaxed plain text for uploading to my server. I need to achieve this in Cocoa/Obj-C 2.0. Does anyone know how to do this?

Thanks so much —» Alex.

Edited Thu 4:53 PM

Umm. In answer to Yuji’s comment, I’m trying to make an NSStatusItem droplet that accepts text. It doesn’t matter what format the text is in, but I need to be able to format it either as plain text or plain text formatted with Markdown. I guess since I don’t know what kind of text I’ll be receiving…

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    Oooph, this is going to be tricky. As Yuji said, you can express a lot more in HTML/RTF than in markdown. That being the case…

    I’d convert the content into an NSAttributedString. You can easily construct an NSAttributedString from RTF data; HTML will be much more difficult. Once you do that, however, it’ll be a matter of inspecting all the attributes on the string and applying the equivalent markdown to a plaintext version of the content.

    Researching a bit more:

    • Markdownify – convert HTML to Markdown in PHP
    • Pandoc – convert markdown (and some formats) to other rich text formats. It supports Markdown => RTF, so you could perhaps use that to create an inverse conversion.
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