UNRTF(1)UNRTF(1)NAME
UnRTF - converts document in RTF format to other formats
SYNOPSISunrtf [options] [file...]
Options: [--nopict] [--noremap] [--html] [--text] [--vt] [--rtf]
[--latex] [--help] [--verbose] [--quiet] [--version] [-P con‐
fig_search_path] [-t tags_file]
DESCRIPTION
The program unrtf is a converter from Rich Text Format (RTF) to a grow‐
ing 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 cur‐
rent 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.
--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 configu‐
ration file can be be made and edited. The most complete con‐
figuration 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
GNU UnRTF 0.21.3 UNRTF(1)
