Re: [NTLK] RichReader source code

From: Victor Rehorst (victor_at_newtontalk.net)
Date: Wed Nov 07 2001 - 10:26:56 EST


On Wed, 7 Nov 2001, Steve Weyer wrote:

> it might be possible, though the source files (zipped) are ~2.8M !
> and difficult of porting to C depends on globals and other constraints of
> Newton C tools.

Like I said before, none of that "source" actually runs on the Palm - you
run it on the desktop to create RichReader docs.

> if someone else ports the RTF and/or PDF converters to Newton, I'd be glad
> to provide a helperApp so when users downloaded .rtf, .pdf files,
> the helperApp would recognize the MIME type, then send the VBO to the app,
> to be converted and displayed (presumably in NewtWorks).

For RTF, I'd suggest you look at the Perl RTF-Parser code:

http://www.cpan.org/authors/Philippe_Verdret/

Or, if you like C++:

http://freshmeat.net/projects/rtfconverter/

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