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TLDR: unrtf (tldr-pages)

Convert RTF files to other file formats.

  • Convert an RTF file to HTML (default)
    unrtf {{path/to/file.rtf}}
  • Convert an RTF file to plain ASCII
    unrtf --text {{path/to/file.rtf}}
  • Convert an RTF file to LaTeX
    unrtf --latex {{path/to/file.rtf}}
UNRTF(1)                               General Commands Manual                              UNRTF(1)



NAME
       UnRTF - converts document in RTF format to other formats

SYNOPSIS
       unrtf [options] [file...]

       Options:  [--nopict]  [--noremap]  [-P config_search_path]  [--html]  [--text] [--vt] [--rtf]
       [--latex] [--help] [--verbose] [--quiet] [--version] [-t tags_file]

DESCRIPTION
       The program unrtf is a converter from Rich Text Format (RTF) to a growing 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 col‐
       ors.  Images are always stored to separate files in the current directory, or they can be ig‐
       nored.

       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  for‐
       mats.   The  configuration  files  can be read from the distributed ones, or from user files,
       searched for in the config_search_path .  Note that the order of the -P and output  arguments
       is important.  The search path must be set before any argument that will load a configuration
       file if that file is not in the standard place.

       Code page conversion is performed with the iconv(3) package.

OPTIONS
       --nopict
              disables the automatic storing of embedded pictures to the current 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 configuration file
              can  be  be  made and edited.  The most complete configuration file and hence the best
              starting point is /usr/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/share/unrtf where distributed output  con‐
              figuration files are installed.

FILES
       /usr/share/unrtf/*.conf
              – run time output configuration files.

       /usr/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.

WEBSITEhttp://www.gnu.org/software/unrtf/unrtf.htmlNOTES
       Report bugs in the program to http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/unrtf/



                                          GNU UnRTF 0.21.9                                  UNRTF(1)
unrtf(1)
NAME SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION OPTIONS
--nopict --noremap --latex --verbose --quiet --version
FILES WEBSITE NOTES

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