rtftohtml - A Filter to Translate RTF to HTML

RTF is a document formatting language developed by Microsoft. There are many word processing packages (Microsoft Word, Word Perfect, Frame Maker...) that can read or write RTF format files. rtftohtml was designed to translate existing RTF documents into HTML - the format of the World Wide Web. rtftohtml can also be used to author new documents specifically for the WWW.

The latest version of rtftohtml is 2.5

How to Get the Package

The rtftohtml translator was developed based on the RTF package version 1.09 developed by Paul Dubois. You will need the following distributions if you want to compile rtftohtml for your platform:

For the Macintosh:

Binary versions are available for

For UNIX

Binary versions of rtftohtml are available for:

See Also

The filter will export graphics to separate files, but does not convert them to GIF or XBM format. If you have graphics in your RTF files, you may be interested in the PBMPLUS package of graphics filters. Included in this package is a translator for PICT graphics (bitmap PICT's only). The package is located here.

Sample Documents

To get you started, I have a Style Sheet for Microsoft Word. This has definitions of the Paragraph styles that I use for authoring Web documents. It renders my RTF versions of the documents in a style that is close to what XMosaic 2.1 displayed (at one time.)

It is located here.

The HTML version is here.