| Re: anyone know of RTF translator? [message #176317 is a reply to message #176315] |
Tue, 20 December 2011 22:16   |
Robert Heller
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At 20 Dec 2011 21:15:36 GMT Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
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> On Mon, 19 Dec 2011 20:05:34 -0500, Jerry Stuckle wrote:
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>> On 12/19/2011 7:06 PM, Michael Joel wrote:
>>> I could really use some "add on" app/script that would allow me to
>>> supply a RTF (rich text format) file and it translate it to HTML. Of
>>> course free is preferred.
>
>> Open it in MS Word
>> Save it in HTML
>
> You owe me a keyboard cleaning Jerry. Honestly, have you seen the garbage
> that msword outputs when you ask it for html.
>
> Open office might be better, I don't know. It generates this for a
> document containing a single word:
Word Processors (*ALL* of them) generate horrible HTML (MS-Word might
be the worst of the lot). The problem is the Word Processors are all
'WYSIWYG' and HTML *by definition* is *NOT* WYSIWYG: HTML markup allows
for wide variation in what is displayed -- nothing is set in stone.
All of the markup is vague and open-ended and the browser is free to do
whatever it likes and the enduser is allowed wide latitude in
configuring almost everything from fonts to screen/window size and
resolution. In order to preserve the 'intended display, the word
processor must use lots of 'torturous' HTML to attempt to force the
proper display.
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> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
> <HTML>
> <HEAD>
> <META HTTP-EQUIV="CONTENT-TYPE" CONTENT="text/html;
> charset=utf-8">
> <TITLE></TITLE>
> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="LibreOffice 3.3 (Unix)">
> <META NAME="AUTHOR" CONTENT="Denis McMahon">
> <META NAME="CREATED" CONTENT="20111220;21113400">
> <META NAME="CHANGEDBY" CONTENT="Denis McMahon">
> <META NAME="CHANGED" CONTENT="20111220;21122200">
> <STYLE TYPE="text/css">
> <!--
> @page { margin: 2cm }
> P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm }
> P.western { so-language: en-GB }
> -->
> </STYLE>
> </HEAD>
> <BODY LANG="en-GB" DIR="LTR">
> <P CLASS="western" STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm">Test</P>
> </BODY>
> </HTML>
>
> which I think is a lot cleaner than word would produce for the same
> document.
>
> Rgds
>
> Denis McMahon
>
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