Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2010 04:33:51 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: Henry Olyer <henry.olyer@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: slightly OT... . Message-ID: <20101029043351.859fd8b8.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinQqXwnvOwYA5E6RWNmGP62dqKgOfNczWd-1bOy@mail.gmail.com> References: <20101028171236.GA11410@thought.org> <20101028190609.GA12329@thought.org> <AANLkTinQqXwnvOwYA5E6RWNmGP62dqKgOfNczWd-1bOy@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, 28 Oct 2010 22:22:26 -0400, Henry Olyer <henry.olyer@gmail.com> wrote: > I wrote some files using a MacBook and saved them as .RTF files. > > And discovered that I couldn't move them to FreeBSD and use AbiWord. > > What do I to make them work? You could try to use one of the tools provided in the ports collection: a) rtf2latex then continue to remove macros to gain plain text b) rtf2html same game here c) rtfreader d) rtfx this is a tool that gives XML output - maybe usabe for further input to AbiWord e) unrtf includes processing like a) and b), and some more formats Which tool to use depends on how you intnd to further use the documents. If it's just about the text, the pure filter programs should be sufficient. Otherwise, try to load them in OpenOffice and see how you can export them from there; ^A ^C and ^V into a text editor should work from there, too. Oh the joy of nonstandard file formats. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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