RTF To Html

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We have an RTF file saved in the database. If we pull the data and write it as a file, without any further

processing/formatting, it should be possible to open the file in an RTF reader application, say, Wordpad.

In other words, we are storing the RTF file as 'raw' data.

 

Our plan is to bring this onto the www browser, like firefox or IE (to allow editing)and put the contents

in a 'Rich Text Area' that the end user can edit the contents, without loosing the formatting. So far, we

have not seen any online RTF editor, or a plug-in that is closely integrated with a browser, like Acrobat

Reader in the case of PDF files.

 

One solution is to use a Rich Text (WYSIWYG) editor that can integrate with php. In this case we need

to convert the RTF on the fly to HTML and import the formatted contents to a WYSIWYG Rich Text editor.

 

Ideally we are looking for a php class do this.

 

After editing, the formatted (ie, bold, italic, etc. etc) content needs to be ideally converted back to RTF when

the end user "Saves" it, and be stored in the database. We need the saved the document in RTF ideally,

but we can live with HTML too.

 

The difficulty is that we are getting the data initially from an external source in RTF format and we

are trying to provide an online editing feature. The RTF file can contain header/footer/images in addition

to styled text.

 

Give any Suggestion?

[Adam]

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=rtf+to+html+conversion+using+php

 

Would seem TinyMCE has built-in function for conversion.

 

Edit: This may not be true actually, I just saw it briefly mentioned on one of the links.