From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 25 10:06:52 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id KAA09252 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 25 Feb 1996 10:06:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de [137.226.31.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA09245 for ; Sun, 25 Feb 1996 10:06:49 -0800 (PST) Received: (from kuku@localhost) by gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id TAA27765; Sun, 25 Feb 1996 19:08:54 +0100 Message-Id: <199602251808.TAA27765@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> Subject: Re: RTF text To: chuckr@Glue.umd.edu (Chuck Robey) Date: Sun, 25 Feb 1996 19:08:53 +0100 (MET) From: "Christoph P. Kukulies" Cc: FreeBSD-Questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Chuck Robey" at Feb 25, 96 12:23:34 pm From: Christoph Kukulies Reply-To: Christoph Kukulies X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25 ME8b] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > > Does anyone know any free tool that can read RTF text format? Maybe > format it in, say, postscript, so I could print it? > > I have a big, nearly 400K article a friend wrote and wants me to look at, > but it's using RTF (rich text format?) and I'm stuck. I think maybe a > lot of the size of the thing is in embedded graphics, which seem to be > encoded in big blocks of hexadecimal chars. in ports/print there is rtf2latex (from one inferno to the next :-) Doesn't mime handle rtf ? At least MS Word does . > > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- > Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data > chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. > 9120 Edmonston Ct #302 | > Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and n3lxx, both FreeBSD > (301) 220-2114 | version 2.2 current -- and great FUN! > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- > > --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de