Linux: Command Line Utility Convert RTF to PDF?

Question

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

Answer 1

sudo apt-get install ted /usr/share/ted/Ted/rtf2pdf.sh source-file dest-file 

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Answer 2

Alternatively, you can use libreoffice for this task:

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

Answer 3

In my Ubuntu 10.4, I have unrtf that "converts RTF to HTML, LaTeX, Postscript." From Postscript, it should be a trivial ps2pdf application for receiving PDF files.

Answer 4

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

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

Answer 5

unoconv makes this very convenient. (For your information, I am currently using the same version 0.5-1). First I have to run the unoconv --listener & , and then the unoconv *.rtf command, for example ...