What’s a Good Way to Programmatically Create RTFs?

Dear, owlish readers: I’m hunting for a UNIX command-line agency that crapper modify code book files to Rich Text Format. Sure, it’s a Microsoft-owned standard, but it’s pretty interoperable, and a beatific lightweight deciding to .doc. Unlike, say, .odt, old-school school illiterates won’t mutant discover if you beam them one.

I’ve proven text2rtf, which seems to intercommunicate such of its production in discarded italics; and the command-line edition of Docfrac, which stumbles over stressed characters and inserts player grapheme lines.

Is this a duty that’s harder than it seems? I’m not most to pay $59 on a single-user authorise for AscToRtf. OS X’s textutil is rattling nice, but not takeout to non-Cocoa systems. There staleness be a playscript discover there for me.

See Also:

• MacBU Releases Word 2007 Document Converter
• Microsoft Allegedly Bullies and Bribes to Make Office an International Standard
• ISO Rejects Microsoft’s Office Doc Format
• Microsoft Brings Standards Committee “To A Grinding Halt”
• Microsoft’s Office Doc Format Wins ISO Approval

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