Cocoa: How to save NSAttributedString to JSON

Question

I have a NSAttributedString object as a property of a custom object. I need to save this custom object to the disk in JSON format. Later I need to

Answer 1

You could try starting with RTFFromRange:

From the documentation: For information about the OS X methods supporting RTF, ..., see NSAttributedString Application Kit Additions Reference.

RTF should be self contained. RTFFromRange: returns NSData; I would think its probably character data in some encoding so should be easy to convert to NSString.

(Sorry, just read that method is MacOS X only).