Convert Font Family and Text Size of a Document from the Command Line

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<p>In addition to being able to <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/07/06/convert-a-text-file-to-rtf-html-doc-and-more-via-command-line/">convert TXT files to RTF or other filetypes</a>, you can use textutil to convert the font family and font size of a document from the command line.</p>

<p>The syntax for doing this is:</p>

<p><code>textutil -convert filetype -font fontfamily -fontsize ## filename.txt</code></p>

<p>For example, to convert file.txt to an RTF document with size 24 Helvetica font, we would use:</p>

<p><code>textutil -convert rtf -font Helvetica -fontsize 24 file.txt</code></p>

<p>The conversion is practically instantaneous. Because this is scriptable from the <a href="http://osxdaily.com/category/command-line/">command line</a>, it is potentially more useful than just opening a document in TextEdit and going about this through the GUI, at least for some Mac users.</p>

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