Re: [Wvware-devel] RTF Converter failures and alternatives.

[Dom L. <ci...@ho...>]

Hi Perry,

wvRTF is severely broken. If you'd like to fix it, please be my guest ;-)

>I need to reliably convert Word files to RTF.  I've used wv to reliably
>convert Word files to ascii.  However, it doesn't seem to work well
>converting to RTF.  Word can't open an RTF file created by wvRTF.  Is
>there a new/better/other Word to RTF converter that works.

Not that I know of. One could use AbiWord (www.abisource.com) and do this 
via:

abiword --to=rtf input.doc

And this will create input.rtf. Note that AbiWord doesn't do tables or boxes 
yet.

>In addition, the converter is too simple to convert Word files that have
>boxes or tables.  Where can I get information about the Word format so I
>can properly convert these?

Right - it's 95% not implemented now in wvRTF but you could make it work, 
but I guarantee that it would be quite a bit of work to get wvRTF up to 
snuff.

Alternately, you might try wvLaTeX and find some way to convert LaTeX to 
RTF, or follow a similar suggestion with the other supported wv output 
formats.

Remember that wv is a library and these are other programs that use that 
library. libwv knows nothing about RTF or HTML or LaTeX. It only knows about 
MS Word DOC and how to iterate that out to some callback functions.

MSWord DOC documentation can be found on www.wvware.com/wvInfo.html and 
www.wotsit.org as well as the MSDN site.

The best wv documentation (in my opinion) is found in the AbiWord sources.
http://www.abisource.com/lxr/source/abi/src/wp/impexp/xp/ie_imp_MsWord_97.cpp

Dom

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