UNRTF(1) UNRTF(1)
GNU UnRTF 0.21.3
NAME
UnRTF - converts document in RTF format to other formats
SYNOPSIS
unrtf [options] [file...]
Options: [--nopict] [--noremap] [--html] [--text] [--vt] [--rtf]
[--latex] [--help] [--verbose] [--quiet] [--version]
[-P config_search_path] [-t tags_file]
DESCRIPTION
The program unrtf is a converter from Rich Text Format (RTF) to a
growing number of document formats. At present it supports Hypertext
Markup Language (HTML), plain text, text with VT100 codes, LaTeX, and
RTF itself. It is possible to produce troff files with macro calls;
an example configuration for troff and the mm macro package is
provided. All output formats except HTML are "alpha" i.e. limited and
development has just begun. However with HTML, the program supports
tables, fonts, hyperlinks, and paragraph alignment. Font support
includes face and size changes, as well as typical attributes such as
italic, bold, underlining, strikethrough, smallcaps, allcaps, expand,
compress and both foreground and background colors. Images are always
stored to separate files in the current directory, or they can be
ignored.
Starting with version 0.21.0, all control of unrtf output is through
runtime configuration files. This makes it easy for users to fine-
tune the output, and/or define new output formats. The configuration
files can be read from the distributed ones, or from user files,
searched for in the config_search_path .
Code page conversion is performed with the iconv(3) package.
OPTIONS
--nopict
disables the automatic storing of embedded pictures to the
current directory.
--noremap
disables charset conversion (currently only works for 8-bit
charsets).
--html
selects HTML output (default).
--rtf
selects RTF output. The resulting output will often be much
smaller than the input.
--text
selects plain ASCII text output.
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--vt selects text output with VT100 escape codes.
--latex
selects output of a LaTeX document.
--verbose
prints additional information.
--quiet
suppress output of leading comments
--version
prints the program version.
-t tags_file
specifies the tags output configuration file to be used. The
command "unrtf -t html" is functionally identical to "unrtf --
html". The configuration files are a simple format. To change
the behaviour of unrtf, a local copy of a system configuration
file can be be made and edited. The most complete configuration
file and hence the best starting point is
/usr/local/share/unrtf/html.conf.
-P config_search_path
specifies the directories in which the configuration file for the
specified format will be sought. The path can be provided as a
single directory or a list of colon separated directories. The
default is /usr/local/share/unrtf/ where distributed output
configuration files are installed.
FILES
/usr/local/share/unrtf/*.conf
- run time output configuration files.
/usr/local/share/unrtf/SYMBOL.charmap
- UTF encoding of the SYMBOL font used in many RTF files.
Unfortunately the iconv package does not include font encodings.
The format is identical to iconv code page files.
WEBSITE
http://www.gnu.org/software/unrtf/unrtf.html
NOTES
Report bugs in the program to daved@physiol.usyd.edu.au
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