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Date:      Sun, 25 Feb 1996 12:22:32 -0800 (PST)
From:      kline@tera.com (Gary Kline)
To:        kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de
Cc:        chuckr@Glue.umd.edu, FreeBSD-Questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: RTF text
Message-ID:  <9602252022.AA21066@tera.com>
In-Reply-To: <199602251808.TAA27765@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> from "Christoph Kukulies" at Feb 25, 96 07:08:53 pm

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According to Christoph Kukulies:
> 
> > 
> > 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 .
> 

	If memory serves, there are TeX/LaTeX tools that churn
	out *.ps files.  I'm not sure how _complete_ a translation
	each does.  That was the gotcha that got-me a year ago.

	gary kline




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