RTF printing?

[Helge Blischke]

Helge Blischke wrote:

> Niels S. Eliasen wrote:
> 
>> hi guys
>> I am having the bizarre problem that printing a RTF file leads to
>> all the escape-codes etc etc gets printed... But I would just like
>> the "nicely" formatted RTF file to be printed....
>> Is there a rtf2whatever filter?? or do I need to muck about with
>> the mime.types ??
>> 
>> tia
>> 
> 
> A simpler and, as for the results, much better approach:
> 
> (1) get the filter officetops from the links at www.cups.org
>     and install it according to the documentation (unless it is already
>     part of your CUPS installation).
> (2) add
> 
> text/rtf	rtf string(0,"{\rtf")
> 
>    to any of your xxx.types file
> 
> and
> 
> text/rtf	application/postscript	50	officetops
> 
>    to any of your xxx.convs file.
> 
> OpenOffice will render rtf documents a lot better than any other solution
> I've come about since ma last post.
> 
> Helge
> 
> P.S.: This son't work on MacOS X 10.5 or higher with the precompiled
> binary of OOo, as this does not provide configuring a "default printer"
> aside from the built-in CUPS interface.

.... you better use the libreofficetopdf or libreofficetops filter.

Helge