On Tue, 2001-11-06 at 18:07, Victor Rehorst wrote:
> We can already handle HTML documents with Newt's Cape. RTF to HTML isn't
> very hard - there's a number of simple Perl scripts that take RTF and
> replace the important RTF codes with their equivalents in HTML. This
> could easily be done (in theory) as a plugin for SimpleMail/Newt's Cape.
> DOC and PDF are another matter - they're much more complex binary formats.
RichReader doesn't even allege that it reads DOC files -- it talks about
"Word Files," but later clarifies it means RTF.
And yah, PDF gets a little scary because you basically need to implement
a subset of PostScript, which is nontrivial.
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