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Re: do we have an rtf to pdf convertor?

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On Friday 01 May 2020 05:16:19 tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:

> On Fri, May 01, 2020 at 04:27:47AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > Greetings all;
> >
> > I have downloaded a new version of an os for a 35 yo computer, but
> > all the docs are in rtf format.
>
> Oh, /that/ dinosaur. Had Microsoft to pay for the collateral it has
> left in its wake, they'd be beggars.
>
> > What to we have that will convert those into printable pdf's?
>
> Apt-cache search rtf delivers a couple of hits. The two I'd look at
> first (unless Kenneth's proposal of using LO just does the trick)

i had to install it, but it did the trick nicely.  Thanks Tomas. Stay 
well now.

> would be
>
>   - unrtf: seems explicitly built to convert RFT to other formats
>   - pandoc: converts anything to anything (well, documents, but hey)
>            I'd expect it to be a bit more complex
>
> Enjoy
> -- t


Cheers, Gene Heskett
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do we have an rtf to pdf convertor? Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2020-05-01 10:30 +0200
  Re: do we have an rtf to pdf convertor? Kenneth Parker <sea7kenp@gmail.com> - 2020-05-01 10:40 +0200
    Re: do we have an rtf to pdf convertor? Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2020-05-01 11:00 +0200
  Re: do we have an rtf to pdf convertor? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2020-05-01 11:20 +0200
    Re: do we have an rtf to pdf convertor? Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2020-05-01 12:30 +0200
  Re: do we have an rtf to pdf convertor? Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> - 2020-05-01 11:50 +0200
    Re: do we have an rtf to pdf convertor? Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2020-05-01 12:40 +0200
  Re: do we have an rtf to pdf convertor? Henning Follmann <hfollmann@itcfollmann.com> - 2020-05-01 13:50 +0200

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