From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 28 22:47:05 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62803106566B for ; Fri, 28 Mar 2008 22:47:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chuckr@chuckr.org) Received: from mail4.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail4.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.6]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40EE98FC26 for ; Fri, 28 Mar 2008 22:47:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chuckr@chuckr.org) Received: (qmail 30885 invoked from network); 28 Mar 2008 22:47:04 -0000 Received: from april.chuckr.org (chuckr@[66.92.151.30]) (envelope-sender ) by mail4.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 28 Mar 2008 22:47:04 -0000 Message-ID: <47ED73DD.8060602@chuckr.org> Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 18:40:29 -0400 From: Chuck Robey User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20071107) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org References: <47ED3B68.3090002@chuckr.org> <20080328185716.GA17446@phong.rwxrwxrwx.net> In-Reply-To: <20080328185716.GA17446@phong.rwxrwxrwx.net> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.5 OpenPGP: id=F3DCA0E9; url=http://pgp.mit.edu Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: file conversion X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 22:47:05 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Martin Tournoij wrote: > On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 02:39:36PM -0400, Chuck Robey wrote: >> Anyone know if we have any port that allows conversion of rtf docs to anything >> else like maybe ps, pdf, html or maybe even plain ASCII text? > > rtfreader (textproc/rtfreader) converts rtf to plain text, it has > always worked for me. > There also seem to be some other ports for dealing with rtf files: > textproc/unrtf > textproc/rtf2html > print/rtf2latex OK, I have a huge load of files to convert, and it looks to me like rtfreader works the best. Luckily, all those ports are small, so I just went and got them all, and tried them on file files each. Nothing works perfectly, but rtfreader seems to be the best of the pick. Thanks for the reference! > > Regards, > Martin Tournoij -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFH7XPdz62J6PPcoOkRAvDnAJ4gCy8fBnun5dcQSaxR1IUs4gY3swCfZVo8 BTrBwutLjtLTymY0XFiA0B0= =QnaJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----