From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 4 15:28:42 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from aragorn.neomedia.it (aragorn.neomedia.it [195.103.207.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E70C37B401 for ; Sat, 4 Aug 2001 15:28:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bartequi@neomedia.it) Received: (from httpd@localhost) by aragorn.neomedia.it (8.11.4/8.11.4) id f74MSaV14721 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 5 Aug 2001 00:28:36 +0200 (CEST) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: WOT Q: How to effectively convert rtf to LaTeX Message-ID: <996964116.3b6c77146780d@webmail.neomedia.it> Date: Sun, 05 Aug 2001 00:28:36 +0200 (CEST) From: Salvo Bartolotta MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: IMP/PHP IMAP webmail program 2.2.4-cvs X-WebMail-Company: Neomedia s.a.s. X-Originating-IP: 62.98.171.77 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dear FreeBSD'ers, On my FreeSBD 4-S box, I would like be able to convert rtf files into LaTeX ones, the rtf files having been produced by Word97(/2000), or... by StarOffice52 (ie, doc --> rtf). i) I have tried the rtf2latex port (print/rtf2latex), to no avail; ii) I have even tried the wv utilities port (textproc/wv): the conversion from doc to LaTeX doesn't seem to produce correct output; iii) I have been googling for a while, but I can't seem to find relevant information, except for other people complaining about the same problem. :-) Is it at all possible to convert relatively complex rtf (or even .doc) documents, also containing jpg/png images, into LaTeX ones satisfactorily? What am I missing? What are you using out there if I may ask? MTIA, Salvo (wishing to make use of *permanent* formats...;-)) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message