Reading RTF files

[Danny Lieberman]

Alan

Thanks for clarifying.
Makes sense that the problem with reading RTF files produced by the Gilboa
agent system was more basic and not related to Hebrew since other Hebrew RTF
files are readable in OO

Seems my solution to use Office 2K or Windows Reader was reasonable after
all.
Danny

On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 2:38 PM, Alan Yaniger <alan at tkos.co.il> wrote:

> 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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