jason.drew has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Dear Wise Perl Ones

Is there a pure Perl script that will convert an rtf file to a pdf file.

I am looking for a pure Perl script and not one that relies on any other executable because i would like to run it on a PDA.

All suggestions welcome (unless its "By a decent machine").

Thanks

Jason

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Re: rtf to pdf
by ph713 (Pilgrim) on Oct 07, 2005 at 13:18 UTC
    Search the CPAN (http://search.cpan.org) for rtf and pdf, there's a few interesting looking modules there like PDF::Create and RTF::Parser. Between the various RTF and PDF modules, I'm sure one could string together a converter.
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      Thanks for that.

      The reason I am looking for a pure script is because getting modules onto my PDA Perl installation is tricky to say the least.

      I'll continue searching anyway.

      Thanks again

      Jason

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        The two I listed (and doubtless most of the rest of the PDF and RTF modules in CPAN) are "pure perl", which is what I thought you meant when I first read it. If you can build a script on your PC that uses them and does the job, then you can certainly also cut+paste the contents of pure perl modules into your scripts (just remember to switch back to package main; after including the modules' source).
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        getting modules onto my PDA Perl installation is tricky to say the least.

        If the modules are Pure Perl, all you need to do is unzip lib/* into the perl/site/lib/ directory or in the same directory as the script that uses them. It doesn't get easier than that.

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Re: rtf to pdf
by jamiros (Novice) on Oct 07, 2005 at 15:11 UTC
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