Reading RTF files

[Ehud Karni]

On Thu, 9 Jul 2009 10:12:23 ik wrote:
>
> If you do not afraid from some programming (not a lot of it), I can suggest
> you Lazarus and some 3rd party component that allow you to display RTF
> files. It's cross platform solution, so it can also work with Linux.

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:


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


Ehud.



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