RTF to PDF converter

[Simon Verzijl_1]

Hi,

Are there any tools out there that can convert Rich Text Format (RTF) docs to PDF on HP-UX ?
One of our 3rd party applications is generating 'standard letters' by using RTF templates and doing simple search/replace on those templates to generate the resulting letter. These RTF files need somehow be onverted to PDF, but the only solutions we've found are windows based.

[Peter Godron]

Simon,
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=739997
gives links to RTF -> text and RTF -> HTML

Also have a look at http://www.nllgg.nl/Ted/
which does mention RTF->PDF, but you may either have to find a site with HP binaries or port it yourself.

Alternative may be to nfs the drive to a windows box and convert there.

Regards

[Yogeeraj_1]

hi,

see the following url:
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Office-tools/PDF/CutePDF-Writer.shtml

hope this helps!
regards
yogeeraj

[Ganesha Sridhara]

Hello,

Please check:
http://www.amyuni.com/en/products/index.php
(The above tool we are using)

http://sourceforge.net/projects/doc2pdf/
(Open source)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/
(One more open source)

Regards
Ganesha Sridhara

[Peter Godron]

Guys,
I think the solution should run on HPUX ?!
Seems all your links are for PC software.
Regards

[Richard Scott_1 · Accepted solution]

You could print the RTF to a file through a PostScript printer filter and then convert it using GhostScript.

See http://www.ghostscript.com/ for info
http://hpux.connect.org.uk/hppd/hpux/PostScript/ghostscript-7.07b/ for a HP-UX port

[Simon Verzijl_1]

thanks for the suggestions so far. But indeed, the solution should work on HP-UX (11.11) and should also be performed in batch/scripted (no manual intervention)

I've looked at Ted, but we don't have the capabilities/resources to do our own porting and we'd prefer to buy an existing/fully supported tool that runs on HP-UX.
If this is not available then ghostscript might be a possible solution, but this will need further investigation.

[Fred Ruffet]

Ted is ported to HP :
http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/hppd/hpux/Editors/ted-4.3g/

Combined with the previous link to ghostscript, you should be able to save to PDF via PS.

Regards,

Fred