Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 09:51:46 +1030
From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To: Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au>
Cc: Jay Nelson <jdn@acp.qiv.com>, FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: Re: How do I read RTF ("Rich Text Format")?
Message-ID: <19980128095146.60495@lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <19980128005502.23616@welearn.com.au>; from Sue Blake on Wed, Jan 28, 1998 at 12:55:02AM %2B1100
References: <19980123132310.09667@lemis.com> <Pine.BSF.3.96.980122211429.1647A-100000@acp.qiv.com> <19980128005502.23616@welearn.com.au>
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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
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