- From: Howard Jones <hjones@vossnet.co.uk>
- Date: Tue, 30 May 1995 08:42:00 +0100 (BST)
- To: Charles Cave <cmc@sydney.unidata.oz.au>
- Cc: Multiple recipients of list <www-html@www10.w3.org>
On Tue, 30 May 1995, Charles Cave wrote: > Recently there has been discussion on this mailing list > of how browsers should be able to make a good job of > printing HTML. > > I have been toying with the problem of taking an existing > HTML document (usually from anothe Web site) and making a decent > Word 5.1 document. > > If an HTML -> RTF filter exists, then the HTML document could be > converted to a Word Processing document and printed nicely from > there. > > My proposed solution was a perl script to convert a subset > of HTML to RTF, in particular Heading styles, <b>, <i> <u> > and lists. If the filter could do the bulk of the work then > I would be happy. > > Does such a tool exist? > > Charles Again, (I never thought I'd find myself recommending Microsoft products!), Word Interet Assistant should do this. I was looking at RTF libraries (for a different purpose) recently, and I found that there are a couple that will read RTF but not much for writing. There seemed to be a lot of standard header information that had to be set up for a minimal document. I did have a URL for RTF resources, but I seem to have lost it. I know it came from the comp.text FAQ though. -- Howard Jones "Who would have thought so much happiness Voss Net Plc. could come from one small insulated wire?" Internet: hjones@vossnet.co.uk - Homer J Simpson, Philosopher. http://www.vossnet.co.uk/people/Howard/index.html
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