[cups] rtf to pdf conversion using cupsfilter

[Paquin, Brian]

I need a server-friendly solution... We have developers who created interfaces between clinical systems. They grab the RTF-based Operating Room notes from one system and save a PDF version of the note in a Mongo database for the other system to use. 

So the ideal solution (like cupsfilter) will do the conversion directly. 

I read about using unRTF and Ghostscript but the programmers are looking for something closer to cupsfilter.

Could we compile a version of cupsfilter for 10.11 that included the RTF support?

Thank you,

Brian
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> On Sep 27, 2016, at 4:30 PM, Mike Sweet <msweet at apple.com> wrote:
> 
> Brian,
> 
> The old filter that provided (very crude) rtf support was removed in 10.10. There is no replacement with cupsfilter but I believe you can use AppleScript to open the rtf in TextEdit and export to PDF...
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
>> On Sep 27, 2016, at 12:49 PM, Paquin, Brian <brian.paquin at yale.edu> wrote:
>> 
>> In Mac OS X 10.9, we were able to convert RTF documents into PDF using:
>> 
>> cupsfilter my_document.rtf > my_document.pdf
>> 
>> This spits back some basic debug info, but works (see below).
>> 
>> But cupsfilter on OS 10.11 is missing that functionality, and returns:
>> 
>> cupsfilter: No filter to convert from text/rtf to application/pdf.
>> 
>> Any ideas how we can get this functionality back?
>> (we hoped it would come back in 10.12, but we get the same behavior as 10.11)
>> 
>> If not something simple (to add/configure), what other solutions would you recommend to convert RTFs into PDFs (the documents have complex formatting but cupsfilter worked well)?
>> 
>> Thank you,
>> 
>> Brian
>> 
>> $ cupsfilter ~/Desktop/my_document.rtf > my_document.pdf
>> DEBUG: argv[0]="cupsfilter"
>> DEBUG: argv[1]="1"
>> DEBUG: argv[2]="administrator"
>> DEBUG: argv[3]="my_document.rtf"
>> DEBUG: argv[4]="1"
>> DEBUG: argv[5]=""
>> DEBUG: argv[6]="/Users/administrator/Desktop/my_document.rtf"
>> DEBUG: envp[0]="<CFProcessPath>"
>> DEBUG: envp[1]="CONTENT_TYPE=text/rtf"
>> DEBUG: envp[2]="CUPS_DATADIR=/usr/share/cups"
>> DEBUG: envp[3]="CUPS_FONTPATH=/usr/share/cups/fonts"
>> DEBUG: envp[4]="CUPS_SERVERBIN=/usr/libexec/cups"
>> DEBUG: envp[5]="CUPS_SERVERROOT=/private/etc/cups"
>> DEBUG: envp[6]="LANG=en_US.UTF8"
>> DEBUG: envp[7]="PATH=/usr/libexec/cups/filter:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin"
>> DEBUG: envp[8]="PPD=/System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/PrintCore.framework/Versions/A/Resources/Generic.ppd"
>> DEBUG: envp[9]="PRINTER_INFO=cupsfilter"
>> DEBUG: envp[10]="PRINTER_LOCATION=Unknown"
>> DEBUG: envp[11]="PRINTER=cupsfilter"
>> DEBUG: envp[12]="RIP_MAX_CACHE=128m"
>> DEBUG: envp[13]="USER=administrator"
>> DEBUG: envp[14]="CHARSET=utf-8"
>> DEBUG: envp[15]="FINAL_CONTENT_TYPE=application/pdf"
>> INFO: nstexttopdf (PID 19583) started.
>> DEBUG: nstexttopdf - opened PPD file "/System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/PrintCore.framework/Versions/A/Resources/Generic.ppd"...
>> INFO: nstexttopdf (PID 19583) exited with no errors.
>> $
>> 
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