Reading RTF files

[Micha Silver]

Ehud Karni wrote:

>
> I use `catdoc' which works quiet good (for both *doc and *rtf).
> `catdoc' is available as a package for Centos and Debian.
> Here is a script I use:
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> catdoc -d8859-8 "$1" | \
> fribidi --charset ISO8859-8 --width 90 --rtl > "${1}_h_txt"
> nohup xmessage \
>    -background yellow -foreground Black -center    \
>    -file "${1}_h_txt" -title "$1" -xrm "$1.Scroll:whenNeeded"  \
>    -font "-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--13-120-75-75-c-80-iso8859-8" \
>    -buttons "$SPC E x i t $SPC ס י ו ם $SPC" > /dev/null &
> sleep 1                                # allow xmessage to start
> rm "${1}_h_txt"                        # remove if not used
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>
> Ehud.
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>   
Ehud:
Thanks for the tip, but I can't get any sensible output. I ran:

 catdoc -a -d8859-8 invoice150711.rtf | fribidi --charset ISO8859-8 
--width=80 --rtl

and I get 188 empty lines. :-(
Am I missing something?

Regards,
Micha

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