From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 27 15:22:38 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA09596 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 27 Jan 1998 15:22:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA09485 for ; Tue, 27 Jan 1998 15:22:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA21356; Wed, 28 Jan 1998 09:51:46 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id JAA15398; Wed, 28 Jan 1998 09:51:46 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Message-ID: <19980128095146.60495@lemis.com> Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 09:51:46 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Sue Blake Cc: Jay Nelson , FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: How do I read RTF ("Rich Text Format")? References: <19980123132310.09667@lemis.com> <19980128005502.23616@welearn.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.84e In-Reply-To: <19980128005502.23616@welearn.com.au>; from Sue Blake on Wed, Jan 28, 1998 at 12:55:02AM +1100 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Wed, Jan 28, 1998 at 12:55:02AM +1100, Sue Blake wrote: > On Thu, Jan 22, 1998 at 09:21:17PM -0600, Jay Nelson wrote: >> On Fri, 23 Jan 1998, Greg Lehey wrote: >> >>> Somebody has just sent me a document in RTF, and I can't do much with >>> it. Does anybody know of software which can decipher this stuff? >> >> StarOffice can read all but the latest versions. Andrew has some rtf >> tools that works better than most. There is also some rtf2??? tools >> out there that supposedly convert to LaTeX and HTML. I looked at them >> some time ago and the porting pain outweighed the benifit. >> >> M$ recently "enhanced" RTF so I doubt anything will handle rtf out of >> '95. > > Aside from normal "enhancements", according to microsoft's bug site, one > version (Word6 or Word7(95)?) produces RTF that is so far out of spec > that it cannot be read by other microsoft products. Supposedly later > versions have fixed this, so any RTF produced by that one particular > version of Word will be atypical. > > RTFtoHTML does a great job if HTML is what you want, but usually it's not. There are other programs that can convert from HTML to other formats. I used one to convert my document to *roff. Before you ask, I wrote it myself, and it's not in a condition to publish. > StarOffice and a .doc file might be the best way if it's the bad-RTF > Word. I couldn't get StarOffice to even look at the document. Didn't I say that in my original message. > We still don't have, and could use, any free RTF converter. Agreed. Greg