From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 29 13:34:32 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7480E1065673 for ; Fri, 29 Oct 2010 13:34:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from henry.olyer@gmail.com) Received: from mail-qw0-f54.google.com (mail-qw0-f54.google.com [209.85.216.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 280548FC18 for ; Fri, 29 Oct 2010 13:34:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qwg8 with SMTP id 8so1074128qwg.13 for ; Fri, 29 Oct 2010 06:34:31 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:in-reply-to :references:date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=YK0B2cPF7Gk736qqiQ2wNP5Mbs9ntCzldMERciJAKZg=; b=lgp3LGcQReogLlsazL8jVEVwKhS5+rbxxxuWD+60poEZK2zxbKzobtU3NjeQZAYnp3 s4jmeO/TWWHui0BSu8AqCFlVSYz0tKcB5FOFnnz71hw6hazA3cy3gUxmOOovWYuc3YjV YvlCbKLsm2ducmdYydXVc6u3T2lxy+Dp3kbbA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=Jq147KeAvxtvepzRuJMgS3IK6Ak7MC5lsfNlDzTrZAdrQ5qVtaWzSNbgWMcabECHgU ecJ0uN1s5mcHUBK8CCoI2vodE/lx+dC4Y9/kDoXh7b91p/gAK5JbGwWV2bRLiIBdJuBp UvZphg3SDJ1tYO8y7wHfo+ap0IC3anFVCnCLI= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.229.220.136 with SMTP id hy8mr257203qcb.218.1288359271226; Fri, 29 Oct 2010 06:34:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.229.249.195 with HTTP; Fri, 29 Oct 2010 06:34:30 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20101029043351.859fd8b8.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <20101028171236.GA11410@thought.org> <20101028190609.GA12329@thought.org> <20101029043351.859fd8b8.freebsd@edvax.de> Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2010 09:34:30 -0400 Message-ID: From: Henry Olyer To: Polytropon Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: slightly OT... . X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2010 13:34:32 -0000 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 wrote: > On Thu, 28 Oct 2010 22:22:26 -0400, Henry Olyer > 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, ... >