Reading RTF files

[Alan Yaniger]

Problems with OO's RTF import of text boxes is a known bug:

see http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=95665


This is part of a general problem with OOo's import of RTF drawing 
objects, and not restricted to Hebrew.


Alan


Ehud Karni wrote:

> On Fri, 10 Jul 2009 09:38:45 Micha Silver wrote:
>   
>> 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.
>>>       
>> 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. :-(
>>     
>
> After Micha sent me his RTF file, I found out that it contain
> "text boxes", not plain text.
>
> Using open office does not help, It shows empty (almost) page.
>
> Filter your RTF with the sed command bellow, it will drop the boxes.
> Than run catdoc as above or use open office (I used `ooviewdoc') both
> will show you the data (ooviewdoc saves more of the original layout).
> BTW. When viewed with M$word, the filtered file show empty boxes.
>
> Ehud.
>
>
> sed -e "s/{...do.dobxpage.dobypara.dodhgt8192.dptxbx.dptxbxmar0{/{/g"   \
>     -e "s/}.dpx[0-9]*.dpy[0-9]*.dpxsize[0-9]*.dpysize[0-9]*.dplinehollow0}/}/g"
>
>
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