Snow Leopard marks domain over RTF; here’s how to reclaim your territory

Looks like Snow Leopard is an alpha male, at least when it comes to the RTF document format. If you use a word processor that saves to RTF by default, you’ll notice quite quickly that Snow Leopard is going to take control of all of your files, forcing them to open in TextEdit. In other words, double clicking your Nisus Writer documents or any file tagged .rtf is going to launch TextEdit, not the program you used to create the file. Thankfully, there is a workaround, and chances are you already know how to do it.

In fact, I’ll let the good folks at Nisus explain what’s going on, and how to fix it. The following is from their Nisus Newsletter, released earlier this morning:

The native file format in both Nisus Writer Express and Pro is RTF (rich text format). This format is shared by many other applications, including TextEdit and Apple Mail. It has been this way since the inception of OS X. We chose this format because it is supported by just about any word processor out there. Prior to Snow Leopard, files that were created in Nisus Writer Express or Pro would always reopen in the originating application.

However, Apple has changed this behavior in 10.6. All RTF files, regardless of where they were created, will open in a single application. By default the Finder is configured to use TextEdit… However, this behavior can be changed in a few easy steps.

In the Finder, single click a Nisus Writer RTF file. Choose the menu File > Get Info. Under “Open with” choose Nisus Writer. Click the “Change All” button. All RTF files will now be opened by Nisus Writer.

Of course, you’ll want to change that to your word processor of choice, but I don’t see why it’s not Nisus Writer already.

Via [Nisus Newsletter]

Products [Snow Leopard] and [Nisus Writer Pro]