1. Overview
This is RTF to HTML converter version 0.1.0.
Copyright (C) 2003 Valentin Lavrinenko, vlavrinenko@users.sourceforge.net
Its primary purpose is using by developers to add rtf to html
converting functionality to their projects, although, end users
can also find it useful.
The main effort was made on processing the tables correctly, and it
seems successful - all other programs I've seen do tables processing
much worse. Moreover, at the moment, I haven't seen any file that
displays correctly in MS Word, but crashes this program.
For further information, go to
http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/rtf2html
2. Copying
Distributed under LGPL license - see COPYING.LESSER, it must be
in the archive.
3. Compiling
- Under UNIX:
Just ./configure && make && make install. The program seems
to work much (about 2 times) faster when compiled with STLPort
STL implementation than with the GNU one. So, you may use
--with-stlport configure option if you have it installed.
- Under MS Windows:
Use MSYS/MinGW, use it the same way as in UNIX.
No makefiles for other Win compilers are included yet, so,
write it yourself, if you want - it isn't that hard.
BCC is no longer supported!
4. Installation
No binary distribution for Unix/Linux is provided - just
compile the program from source (see above). You can, however,
download a binary package for MS Windows from the project page,
http://www.sf.net/projects/rtf2html.
5. Usage
5.1 Command-line options
rtf2html -v|--version
prints the current version.
rtf2html -h|--help
prints the help.
rtf2html [<rtf file> [<html file>]].
Converts the file. If either of files is not specified,
the corresponding std descriptor (stdin or stdout) is used.
5.2 Supported features
This version supports the following:
- Character formatting: bold, italic, underline, sub- and superscripts.
NOTE: underlining is displayed only as solid.
- Paragraph formatting: horizontal alignment, indentation, margins.
- Table formatting: arbitrary cell spans, cell sizings, borders,
vertical alignment in cells.
NOTE: borders are displayed correctly only under IE 5+ and only
as solid.
- Page formatting: page width, left margin.
- Hexadecimal character codes (Cyrillic letters would come out in
win1251)
- Font faces and sizes.
- Foreground and background colors, highlighting.
5.3 Unsupported features
This version DOES NOT support the following:
- Character sets.
- Hyperlinks.
- Images.
- Different stuff like macros, embedded OLE objects, etc.
6. Compiling notes.
The source was compiled with
- gcc 3.3 under ALT Linux Master 2.4 on i386
- gcc 3.4.2 (MinGW) under Win2k
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