Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2010 09:34:30 -0400 From: Henry Olyer <henry.olyer@gmail.com> To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: slightly OT... . Message-ID: <AANLkTingJQS_v2HaMM0XqeVCaoOP0BPTEVhhRCBkWsV9@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20101029043351.859fd8b8.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <20101028171236.GA11410@thought.org> <20101028190609.GA12329@thought.org> <AANLkTinQqXwnvOwYA5E6RWNmGP62dqKgOfNczWd-1bOy@mail.gmail.com> <20101029043351.859fd8b8.freebsd@edvax.de>
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I have some information that the problem is because the Macbook fonts are different from the FreeBSD fonts. Thank you!, thank you very much. On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 10:33 PM, Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> wrote: > 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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