From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 25 10:14:23 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id KAA09829 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 25 Feb 1996 10:14:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from jolt.eng.umd.edu (jolt.eng.umd.edu [129.2.102.5]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id KAA09819 for ; Sun, 25 Feb 1996 10:14:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from thurston.eng.umd.edu (thurston.eng.umd.edu [129.2.98.206]) by jolt.eng.umd.edu (8.7.3/8.7) with ESMTP id NAA14752; Sun, 25 Feb 1996 13:14:08 -0500 (EST) Received: (from chuckr@localhost) by thurston.eng.umd.edu (8.7.4/8.7) id NAA08707; Sun, 25 Feb 1996 13:14:07 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 25 Feb 1996 13:14:05 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey X-Sender: chuckr@thurston.eng.umd.edu To: Christoph Kukulies cc: FreeBSD-Questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RTF text In-Reply-To: <199602251808.TAA27765@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 25 Feb 1996, Christoph P. Kukulies wrote: > > > > Does anyone know any free tool that can read RTF text format? Maybe > > format it in, say, postscript, so I could print it? > > > > I have a big, nearly 400K article a friend wrote and wants me to look at, > > but it's using RTF (rich text format?) and I'm stuck. I think maybe a > > lot of the size of the thing is in embedded graphics, which seem to be > > encoded in big blocks of hexadecimal chars. > > in ports/print there is rtf2latex (from one inferno to the next :-) > Doesn't mime handle rtf ? At least MS Word does . Mime handles RTF, but all that means is I got the RTF from my friend in the mail. I had no tool to handle it, and mime is just transport, not handling. I'm checking out rtf2latex now, thanks for the reference. > > > > > > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- > > Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data > > chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. > > 9120 Edmonston Ct #302 | > > Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and n3lxx, both FreeBSD > > (301) 220-2114 | version 2.2 current -- and great FUN! > > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- > > > > > > --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 9120 Edmonston Ct #302 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and n3lxx, both FreeBSD (301) 220-2114 | version 2.2 current -- and great FUN! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------