pod2rtf

[jmcnamara]

Simple pod2rtf (Rich Text Format) converter based on the Pod::Simple::RTF subclass of Pod::Simple.

See also pod2rtf.

    Usage: pod2rtf [infile] [outfile]

    If infile isn't defined defaults to STDIN
    If outfile isn't defined defaults to STDOUT

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;
use Pod::Simple::RTF;


my $parser = Pod::Simple::RTF->new();


if (defined $ARGV[0]) {
    open IN, $ARGV[0] or die "Couldn't open $ARGV[0]: $!\n";
} else {
    *IN = *STDIN;
}

if (defined $ARGV[1]) {
    open OUT, ">$ARGV[1]" or die "Couldn't open $ARGV[1]: $!\n";
} else {
    *OUT = *STDOUT;
}


$parser->output_fh(*OUT);
$parser->parse_file(*IN);


__END__

[casiano]

Thanks for the script.

I have experienced problems when converting files containing utf8 characters (like spanish accents, etc.). The alternative was to convert the file first to isolatin:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use Pod::Simple::RTF;
my $file = shift || die "Provide a file name\n";
die "Provide a file name\n" unless -r $file;

my $latin = $file;
$latin = "$file.latin";

my $parser = Pod::Simple::RTF->new();

my $outfile = $file;
$outfile =~ s/\.\w*$/.rtf/ or $outfile = "$file.rtf";

open STDOUT, "> $outfile";

system("iconv -f UTF-8 -t ISO_8859-15 $file > $latin") and die "Can't 
+execute iconv\n";

Pod::Simple::RTF->filter($latin)->any_errata_seen;

unlink $latin;