DSL Ideas and Suggestions :: RTF converter



FLwriter is a great word processor, and it writes to rtf, which is good, however it doesn't read rtf files.  I know Ted used to be included in dsl, but all my attempts to install ted have failed because my laptop is so old its ramdrive simply can't install any extensions other then uci and I couldn't get the private install script on teds website to work.  Personaly, a converter that converted rtf to xhtml would be a God send, because then I wouldn't have to boot into windows for workgroups 3.11 and open MS Office 4(ewwww) to work on these rtf files.  Either that or if someone could find it in their heart to make a Ted.uci(I tried myself, and failed).  I'm not picky.  If there already is such a conversion tool in dsl, what would the command be?
I should also not that openoffice.uci does install, however my computer takes like 30 minutes to open it and then gets stuck halfway through.   Compaq LTE's are a bit past their prime.
Other then that one rather specific request, I love DSL for my ancient laptop, it runs well, its fast, and it has most everything I want.
There is a builtin one. It is called fl_rtf2html
It outputs to stdout so...

fl_rtf2html nameOfFile.rtf > nameOfFile.html

Then flwriter will be able to open it.
I don't think that it retains much of the formatting.
Although I had not had that much time to really try much with it.
Quote (roberts @ Nov. 18 2005,13:18)
There is a builtin one. It is called fl_rtf2html
It outputs to stdout so...

fl_rtf2html nameOfFile.rtf > nameOfFile.html

Then flwriter will be able to open it.
I don't think that it retains much of the formatting.
Although I had not had that much time to really try much with it.

Thanks...didn't see that command anywhere.  I shall go try it immediatly.

Edit:
Tried it out, it lost all double spaces.  Still its something to consider, but on longer documents its not practical.  14 or so pages of going back and adding spaces is a bit of pain.  If only I had skillz I'd figure out how to install ted without filling my ramdrive and crashing dsl.  Alas, I am lame.
You might want to do one of the following:

1) A full hard drive installation of your existing DSL version. The ramdisk issue no longer is a problem because you are using a hard disk partition instead of a RAM disk.

2) Get DSL 2.0RC2 and create and format a Linux swap partition or a DOS swapfile.  The swap space will be included in your ramdisk size so you will not crash DSL.  Instead, you will activate your swap space as part of your ramdisk.
Quote (cbagger01 @ Nov. 19 2005,16:24)
You might want to do one of the following:

1) A full hard drive installation of your existing DSL version. The ramdisk issue no longer is a problem because you are using a hard disk partition instead of a RAM disk.

2) Get DSL 2.0RC2 and create and format a Linux swap partition or a DOS swapfile.  The swap space will be included in your ramdisk size so you will not crash DSL.  Instead, you will activate your swap space as part of your ramdisk.

I like options 2, but I'll wait for an offical realease, that dos swap option sounds like the way to go.
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