On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 12:56 PM, Matijn Woudt <tijnema@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 > > I found this http://webcheatsheet.com/php/reading_the_clean_text_from_rtf.php
