On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 5:24 PM, Tedd Sperling <tedd@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sep 3, 2012, at 1:23 AM, John Taylor-Johnston <jt.johnston@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> I have a big giant RTF file. I could convert it to plain text. BUT can PHP do it for me? > > Hell, even M$ can't do it! > > I have tons of old Word RFT files that were orphaned by the installation of a newer of M$ Word. The upgrade actually deleted older versions of Word and then would not open the older files because of security concerns (they were create by an older version, duh). It was a nightmare -- as a result, I lost years of business correspondence. Now I make z text version of every document I write. > > If I wanted to get those old files back, I will have to set up an older computer, reinstall the older version of Word and then transfer those files, convert them to text, and bring them back. That's a lot of work because I trusted M$ to respect older files, but they don't. In short, don't trust M$. > > Cheers, > > tedd > Either they don't have respect to the older files, or they just don't understand how the format works.. The same goes for opening '97-'03 files in Word 2010 version, sometimes it's also all messed up. Just a side note tedd, couldn't you just open those RTF files with wordpad? IIRC it supports RTF and plain text (even in Win7) - Matijn -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
