From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 25 12:29:11 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id MAA17168 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 25 Feb 1996 12:29:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from distortion.eng.umd.edu (distortion.eng.umd.edu [129.2.98.6]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA17163 for ; Sun, 25 Feb 1996 12:29:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from thurston.eng.umd.edu (thurston.eng.umd.edu [129.2.98.206]) by distortion.eng.umd.edu (8.7.3/8.7) with ESMTP id PAA09330; Sun, 25 Feb 1996 15:28:45 -0500 (EST) Received: (from chuckr@localhost) by thurston.eng.umd.edu (8.7.4/8.7) id PAA08912; Sun, 25 Feb 1996 15:28:45 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 25 Feb 1996 15:28:42 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey X-Sender: chuckr@thurston.eng.umd.edu To: Gary Kline cc: kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de, FreeBSD-Questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RTF text In-Reply-To: <9602252022.AA21066@tera.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 25 Feb 1996, Gary Kline wrote: > According to Christoph Kukulies: > > > > > > > > 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 . > > > > If memory serves, there are TeX/LaTeX tools that churn > out *.ps files. I'm not sure how _complete_ a translation > each does. That was the gotcha that got-me a year ago. Thanks, guys, I found and built rtf2LaTeX (I hate those embedded capitals) but it seems to choke on the first few lines of this Mac-generated document. I've had lots of trouble in the past trying to get Mac postscript to print, so I guess I'm not surprised. I think I'm just going to give this idea up. > > gary kline > > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- 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! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------