Linux: Command Line Utility Convert RTF to PDF?

Question

Any recommendations to convert an RTF to a PDF? I need to do this from my LAMP application, so a command line utility like GhostScript would be ideal.

Engadine

This may be useful – Brigittebriley

use UnRTF, convert to .ps and then ps2pdf to get the pdf. UnRTF also available on Win32 – Phyllotaxis

Answer 1

sudo apt-get install ted

/usr/share/ted/Ted/rtf2pdf.sh source-file dest-file

or visit this link

Veradi

What is ted, is there a website or so? It doesn't seem to be part of Ubuntu. Also, did you just search and paste ;-) – Notice

@Kerrek - knew about ted, so I googled it and copypasted the first example I could find which was the link provided by you. – Veradi

#sudo apt-get install ted Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done E: Couldn't find package ted – Nosology

Answer 2

Alternatively, you can use libreoffice for this task:

libreoffice --headless --invisible --norestore --convert-to pdf source-file.rtf

Willhite

Persumably there is a version of java already provided with my libreoffice installation, but it sin't found by default:javaldx: Could not find a Java Runtime Environment! Warning: failed to read path from javaldx – Polite

Answer 3

In my Ubuntu 10.4 I have unrtf, which "converts RTF to HTML, LaTeX, Postscript". From Postscript it should be a trivial application of ps2pdf to get PDFs.

Notice

My rtf was not well formed, so this utility failed to convert. As long as there is no Ted in ubuntu sources now, I converted my rtf with libreoffice heedless – Gong

Answer 4

unoconv does this very conveniently. (FYI, I'm currently using version 0.5-1 of same). I have to first run a unoconv --listener & command, followed by a unoconv *.rtf command, for example...

UPDATE: I can verify that, on my Debian Jessie machine, version 0.6 of unoconv behaves in the above fashion. However, the unoconv --listener & command is now no longer necessary (indeed, same seems to cause difficulties if later attempting to open a LibreOffice file...).

Haiduk

Answer 5

Under Cent OS 6, these steps worked for me to convert RTF to PDF from a php file:

1. yum install Ted
2. yum install ghostscript
3. Download rtf2pdf.sh to some path like: /var/www/html/lib, where Apache has sufficient permissions
4. shell_exec('sh /lib/rtf2pdf.sh /files/test.rtf /files/test.pdf');

Brigittebriley