Linux: Command Line Utility Convert RTF to PDF?

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Any recommendations to convert an RTF to a PDF? I need to do this from my LAMP application, so a command line utility like GhostScript would be ideal.

[This may be useful](http://stackoverflow.com/a/22859546/386579) — shasi kanth, Apr 04 '14 at 09:59
use UnRTF, convert to .ps and then ps2pdf to get the pdf. UnRTF also available on Win32 — dns, Aug 14 '14 at 16:27

score 23 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 14 '14 at 10:48

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Alternatively, you can use libreoffice for this task:

libreoffice --headless --invisible --norestore --convert-to pdf source-file.rtf

answered Nov 14 '14 at 10:48

Anonymous Coward

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Persumably there is a version of java already provided with my libreoffice installation, but it sin't found by default:`javaldx: Could not find a Java Runtime Environment!` `Warning: failed to read path from javaldx` – user2023370 May 20 '15 at 09:31

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 28 '11 at 22:11

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sudo apt-get install ted

/usr/share/ted/Ted/rtf2pdf.sh source-file dest-file

or visit this link

answered Jul 28 '11 at 22:11

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What is `ted`, is there a website or so? It doesn't seem to be part of Ubuntu. Also, did you just [search and paste](http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-software-2/convert-rtf-to-pdf-263247/) ;-) – Kerrek SB Jul 28 '11 at 22:13
@Kerrek - knew about ted, so I googled it and copypasted the first example I could find which was the link provided by you. – Fredrik Pihl Jul 28 '11 at 22:17
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#sudo apt-get install ted Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done E: Couldn't find package ted – alvas Mar 21 '12 at 20:03

score 3 · Answer 3 · answered Jul 28 '11 at 22:13

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In my Ubuntu 10.4 I have unrtf, which "converts RTF to HTML, LaTeX, Postscript". From Postscript it should be a trivial application of ps2pdf to get PDFs.

answered Jul 28 '11 at 22:13

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My rtf was not well formed, so this utility failed to convert. As long as there is no Ted in ubuntu sources now, I converted my rtf with libreoffice heedless – DmitrySandalov Apr 02 '15 at 07:33

Digger · Answer 4 · 2021-01-19T21:19:05.000

unoconv does this very conveniently. (FYI, I'm currently using version 0.5-1 of same). I have to first run a unoconv --listener & command, followed by a unoconv *.rtf command, for example...

UPDATE: I can verify that, on my Debian Jessie machine, version 0.6 of unoconv behaves in the above fashion. However, the unoconv --listener & command is now no longer necessary (indeed, same seems to cause difficulties if later attempting to open a LibreOffice file...).

score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Mar 28 '14 at 12:27

Under Cent OS 6, these steps worked for me to convert RTF to PDF from a php file:

yum install Ted
yum install ghostscript
Download rtf2pdf.sh to some path like: /var/www/html/lib, where Apache has sufficient permissions
shell_exec('sh /lib/rtf2pdf.sh /files/test.rtf /files/test.pdf');

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