This site is useful: http://www.pindari.com/rtf3.html {\rtf1\ansi\deff0 \trowd \cellx1000 \cellx2000 \cellx3000 \intbl cell 1\cell \intbl cell 2\cell \intbl cell 3\cell \row } This will give: ————————— |cell 1 | cell 2 | cell 3 | ————————— A row is delimted with \trowd … \row Each cell ends with \cell \cellx determines the right side of the … Read more
Saddly I’ve done my VERY best effort to slim this down to only the required code. It’s still big, but it will work. The RichTextBox api in .Net is very limited, to do anything you almost have to thunk into the Win32 library. I’ve built a entire library around this thing just so I can … Read more
TRichEdit control is an wrapper around the RichEdit control in Windows. Windows’s controls are… well.. Windows, and they need an Window Handle to work. Delphi needs to call CreateWindow or CreateWindowEx to create the Handle, and both routines need an valid parent Window Handle to work. Delphi tries to use the handle of the control’s … Read more
I use Swing’s RTFEditorKit in Java 6 like this: RTFEditorKit rtfParser = new RTFEditorKit(); Document document = rtfParser.createDefaultDocument(); rtfParser.read(new ByteArrayInputStream(rtfBytes), document, 0); String text = document.getText(0, document.getLength()); and thats working.
I’ve been working on a library called Pyth, which can do this: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pyth/ Converting an RTF file to plaintext looks something like this: from pyth.plugins.rtf15.reader import Rtf15Reader from pyth.plugins.plaintext.writer import PlaintextWriter doc = Rtf15Reader.read(open(‘sample.rtf’)) print PlaintextWriter.write(doc).getvalue() Pyth can also generate RTF files, read and write XHTML, generate documents from Python markup a la Nevow’s stan, … Read more
Provided that all the characters that you’re catering for exist in the Basic Multilingual Plane (it’s unlikely that you’ll need anything more), then a simple UTF-16 encoding should suffice. Wikipedia: All possible code points from U+0000 through U+10FFFF, except for the surrogate code points U+D800–U+DFFF (which are not characters), are uniquely mapped by UTF-16 regardless … Read more
The .Net Framework RichTextBox class can perform the conversion. Fortunately, this class has the ComVisibleAttribute set, so it can be used from VBA without much difficulty. I had to create a .tlb file to Reference. In the %SYSTEMROOT%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\currentver\ directory, run the command regasm /codebase system.windows.forms.dll to create the system.windows.forms.tlb file. I already had this .tlb … Read more
This is probably not as drop-in-place as what you were after… but JTextPane supports rich text and HTML. Its trivial to get it to display rtf or html, just set the encoding type before you fill it with content. As for making the little “B” and “I” etc style-modifying buttons, well if it came down … Read more
Doesn’t RichTextBox always have the same header/footer? You could just read the content based on off-set location, and continue using it to parse. (I think? please correct me if I’m wrong) There are libraries available, but I’ve never had good luck with them personally (though always just found another method before fully exhausting the possibilities). … Read more
Actually there is a simple and free solution: use your browser, ok this is the trick I used: var webBrowser = new WebBrowser(); webBrowser.CreateControl(); // only if needed webBrowser.DocumentText = *yourhtmlstring*; while (_webBrowser.DocumentText != *yourhtmlstring*) Application.DoEvents(); webBrowser.Document.ExecCommand(“SelectAll”, false, null); webBrowser.Document.ExecCommand(“Copy”, false, null); *yourRichTextControl*.Paste(); This could be slower than other methods but at least it’s free … Read more