Writing Your Own RTF Converter

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Introduction

In 1992, Microsoft introduced the Rich Text Format for specifying simple formatted text with embedded graphics. Initially intended to transfer such data between different applications on different Operating Systems (MS-DOS, Windows, OS/2, and Apple Macintosh), today this format is commonly used in Windows for enhanced editing capabilities (RichTextBox).

However, as soon as you have to work with such data in RTF format, additional wishes start to get strong:

• Simple extraction of text without consideration of any format information
• Extraction and conversion of embedded image information (scaled or unscaled)
• Conversion of the RTF layout and/or data into another format such as XML or HTML
• Transferring RTF data into a custom data model

The component introduced in this article has been designed with the following goals in mind:

• Support for the current RTF Specification 1.9.1
• Open Source C# code
• Unlimited usage in console, WinForms, WPF, and ASP.NET applications
• Independence of third party components
• Unicode support
• Possibility to analyze RTF data on various levels
• Separation of parsing and the actual interpretation of RTF data
• Extensibility of parser and interpreter
• Providing simple predefined conversion modules for text, images, XML, and HTML
• Ready-to-use RTF converter applications for text, images, XML, and HTML
• Open architecture for simple creation of custom RTF converters

Please keep the following shortcomings in mind:

• The component offers no high-level functionality to create RTF content
• The present RTF interpreter is restricted to content data and basic formatting options

There is no special support for the following RTF layout elements:

• Tables
• Lists
• Automatic numbering
• All features which require knowledge of how Microsoft Word might mean it ...

In general, this should not pose a big problem for many areas of use. A conforming RTF writer should always write content with readers in mind that they do not know about tags and features which were introduced later in the standards history. As a consequence, a lot of the content in an RTF document is stored several times (at least if the writer cares about other applications). This is taken advantage of by the interpreter here, which just simply focuses on the visual content. Some writers in common use, however, improperly support this alternate representation, which will result in differences in the resulting output.

Thanks to its open architecture, the RTF parser is a solid base for development of an RTF converter which focuses on layout.

RTF Parser

The actual parsing of the data is being done by the class RtfParser. Apart from the tag recognition, it also handles (a first level of) character encoding and Unicode support. The RTF parser classifies the RTF data into the following basic elements:

• RTF Group: A group of RTF elements
• RTF Tag: The name and value of an RTF tag
• RTF Text: Arbitrary text content (not necessarily visible!)

The actual parsing process can be monitored by ParserListeners (Observer Pattern), which offers an opportunity to react on specific events and perform corresponding actions.

The integrated parser listener RtfParserListenerFileLogger can be used to write the structure of the RTF elements into a log file (mainly intended for use during development). The produced output can be customized using its RtfParserLoggerSettings. The additional RtfParserListenerLogger parser listener can be used to log the parsing process to any ILogger implementation (see System functions).

The parser listener RtfParserListenerStructureBuilder generates the Structure Model from the RTF elements encountered during parsing. That model represents the basic elements as instances of IRtfGroup, IRtfTag, and IRtfText. Access to the hierarchical structure can be gained through the RTF group available in RtfParserListenerStructureBuilder.StructureRoot. Based on the Visitor Pattern, it is easily possible to examine the structure model via any IRtfElementVisitor implementation:

// ----------------------------------------------------------------------
public class MyVisitor : IRtfElementVisitor
{
    void RtfWriteStructureModel()
    {
      RtfParserListenerFileLogger logger =
         new RtfParserListenerFileLogger( @"c:\temp\RtfParser.log" );
      IRTFGroup structureRoot =
         RtfParserTool.Parse( @"{\rtf1foobar}", logger );
      structureRoot.Visit( this );
    } // RtfWriteStructureModel

    // ----------------------------------------------------------------------
    void IRtfElementVisitor.VisitTag( IRtfTag tag )
    {
      Console.WriteLine( "Tag: " + tag.FullName );
    } // IRtfElementVisitor.VisitTag

    // ----------------------------------------------------------------------
    void IRtfElementVisitor.VisitGroup( IRtfGroup group )
    {
      Console.WriteLine( "Group: " + group.Destination );
      foreach ( IRtfElement child in group.Contents )
      {
        child.Visit( this ); // recursive
      }
    } // IRtfElementVisitor.VisitGroup

    // ----------------------------------------------------------------------
    void IRtfElementVisitor.VisitText( IRtfText text )
    {
      Console.WriteLine( "Text: " + text.Text );
    } // IRtfElementVisitor.VisitText

} // MyVisitor

Note, however, that the same result for such simple functionality could be achieved by writing a custom IRtfParserListener (see below). This can, in some cases, be useful to avoid the overhead of creating the structure model in memory.

The utility class RtfParserTool offers the possibility to receive RTF data from a multitude of sources, such as string, TextReader, and Stream. It also allows, via its IRtfSource interface, to handle all these (and even other) scenarios in a uniform way.

The interface IRtfParserListener, with its base utility implementation RtfParserListenerBase, offers a way to react in custom ways to specific events during the parsing process:

// ------------------------------------------------------------------------
public class MyParserListener : RtfParserListenerBase
{
    // ----------------------------------------------------------------------
    protected override void DoParseBegin()
    {
      Console.WriteLine( "parse begin" );
    } // DoParseBegin

    // ----------------------------------------------------------------------
    protected override void DoGroupBegin()
    {
      Console.WriteLine( "group begin - level " + Level.ToString() );
    } // DoGroupBegin

    // ----------------------------------------------------------------------
    protected override void DoTagFound( IRtfTag tag )
    {
      Console.WriteLine( "tag " + tag.FullName );
    } // DoTagFound

    // ----------------------------------------------------------------------
    protected override void DoTextFound( IRtfText text )
    {
      Console.WriteLine( "text " + text.Text );
    } // DoTextFound

    // ----------------------------------------------------------------------
    protected override void DoGroupEnd()
    {
      Console.WriteLine( "group end - level " + Level.ToString() );
    } // DoGroupEnd

    // ----------------------------------------------------------------------
    protected override void DoParseSuccess()
    {
      Console.WriteLine( "parse success" );
    } // DoParseSuccess

    // ----------------------------------------------------------------------
    protected override void DoParseFail( RtfException reason )
    {
      Console.WriteLine( "parse failed: " + reason.Message );
    } // DoParseFail

    // ----------------------------------------------------------------------
    protected override void DoParseEnd()
    {
      Console.WriteLine( "parse end" );
    } // DoParseEnd

} // MyParserListener

Note that the used base class already provides (empty) implementations for all the interface methods, so only the ones which are required for a specific purpose need to be overridden.

RTF Interpreter

Once an RTF document has been parsed into a structure model, it is subject to interpretation through the RTF interpreter. One obvious way to interpret the structure is to build a Document Model which provides high-level access to the meaning of the document's contents. A very simple document model is part of this component, and consists of the following building blocks:

• Document info: title, subject, author, etc.
• User properties
• Color information
• Font information
• Text formats
• Visuals
• Text with associated formatting information
• Breaks: line, paragraph, section, page
• Special characters: tabulator, paragraph begin/end, dash, space, bullet, quote, hyphen
• Images

The various Visuals represent the recognized visible RTF elements, and can be examined with any IRtfVisualVisitor implementation.

Analogous to the possibilities of the RTF parser, the provided RtfInterpreter supports monitoring the interpretation process with InterpreterListeners for specific purposes.

Analyzing documents might be simplified by using the RtfInterpreterListenerFileLogger interpreter listener, which writes the recognized RTF elements into a log file. Its output can be customized through its RtfInterpreterLoggerSettings. The additional RtfInterpreterListenerLogger interpreter listener can be used to log the interpretation process to any ILogger implementation (see System functions).

Construction of the document model is also achieved through such an interpreter listener (RtfInterpreterListenerDocumentBuilder) which, in the end, delivers an instance of an IRtfDocument.

The following example shows how to make use of the high-level API of the document model:

// ----------------------------------------------------------------------
void RtfWriteDocumentModel( Stream rtfStream )
{
    RtfInterpreterListenerFileLogger logger =
      new RtfInterpreterListenerFileLogger( @"c:\temp\RtfInterpreter.log" );
    IRtfDocument document = RtfInterpreterTool.BuildDoc( rtfStream, logger );
    RtfWriteDocument( document );
} // RtfWriteDocumentModel

// ----------------------------------------------------------------------
void RtfWriteDocument( IRtfDocument document )
{
    Console.WriteLine( "RTF Version: " + document.RtfVersion.ToString() );

    // document info
    Console.WriteLine( "Title: " + document.DocumentInfo.Title );
    Console.WriteLine( "Subject: " + document.DocumentInfo.Subject );
    Console.WriteLine( "Author: " + document.DocumentInfo.Author );
    // ...

    // fonts
    foreach ( IRtfFont font in document.FontTable )
    {
      Console.WriteLine( "Font: " + font.Name );
    }

    // colors
    foreach ( IRtfColor color in document.ColorTable )
    {
      Console.WriteLine( "Color: " + color.AsDrawingColor.ToString() );
    }

    // user properties
    foreach ( IRtfDocumentProperty documentProperty in document.UserProperties )
    {
      Console.WriteLine( "User property: " + documentProperty.Name );
    }

    // visuals (preferably handled through an according visitor)
    foreach ( IRtfVisual visual in document.VisualContent )
    {
      switch ( visual.Kind )
      {
        case RtfVisualKind.Text:
          Console.WriteLine( "Text: " + ((IRtfVisualText)visual).Text );
          break;
        case RtfVisualKind.Break:
          Console.WriteLine( "Tag: " +
                  ((IRtfVisualBreak)visual).BreakKind.ToString() );
          break;
        case RtfVisualKind.Special:
          Console.WriteLine( "Text: " +
                 ((IRtfVisualSpecialChar)visual).CharKind.ToString() );
          break;
        case RtfVisualKind.Image:
          IRtfVisualImage image = (IRtfVisualImage)visual;
          Console.WriteLine( "Image: " + image.Format.ToString() +
           " " + image.Width.ToString() + "x" + image.Height.ToString() );
          break;
      }
    }
} // RtfWriteDocument

As with the parser, the class RtfInterpreterTool offers convenience functionality for easy interpretation of RTF data and creation of a corresponding IRtfDocument. In case no IRtfGroup is yet available, it also provides for passing any source to the RtfParserTool for automatic on-the-fly parsing.

The interface IRtfInterpreterListener, with its base utility implementation RtfInterpreterListenerBase, offers the necessary foundation for a custom interpreter listener:

// ------------------------------------------------------------------------
public class MyInterpreterListener : RtfInterpreterListenerBase
{
    // ----------------------------------------------------------------------
    protected override void DoBeginDocument( IRtfInterpreterContext context )
    {
      // custom action
    } // DoBeginDocument

    // ----------------------------------------------------------------------
    protected override void DoInsertText( IRtfInterpreterContext context,
                                          string text )
    {
      // custom action
    } // DoInsertText

    // ----------------------------------------------------------------------
    protected override void DoInsertSpecialChar( IRtfInterpreterContext context,
                                                 RtfVisualSpecialCharKind kind )
    {
      // custom action
    } // DoInsertSpecialChar

    // ----------------------------------------------------------------------
    protected override void DoInsertBreak( IRtfInterpreterContext context,
                                           RtfVisualBreakKind kind )
    {
      // custom action
    } // DoInsertBreak

    // ----------------------------------------------------------------------
    protected override void DoInsertImage( IRtfInterpreterContext context,
      RtfVisualImageFormat format,
      int width, int height, int desiredWidth, int desiredHeight,
      int scaleWidthPercent, int scaleHeightPercent,
      string imageDataHex
    )
    {
      // custom action
    } // DoInsertImage

    // ----------------------------------------------------------------------
    protected override void DoEndDocument( IRtfInterpreterContext context )
    {
      // custom action
    } // DoEndDocument

} // MyInterpreterListener

The IRtfInterpreterContext passed to all of these methods contains the document information which is available at the very moment (colors, fonts, formats, etc.) as well as information about the state of the interpretation.

RTF Base Converters

As a foundation for the development of more complex converters, there are four base converters available for text, images, XML, and HTML. They are designed to be extended by inheritance.

Text Converter

The RtfTextConverter can be used to extract plain text from an RTF document. Its RtfTextConvertSettings determines how to represent special characters, tabulators, white space, breaks (line, page, etc.), and what to do with them.

// ----------------------------------------------------------------------
void ConvertRtf2Text( Stream rtfStream )
{
    // logger
    RtfInterpreterListenerFileLogger logger =
      new RtfInterpreterListenerFileLogger( @"c:\temp\RtfInterpreter.log" );

    // text converter
    RtfTextConvertSettings textConvertSettings = new RtfTextConvertSettings();
    textConvertSettings.BulletText = "-"; // replace default bullet text '°'

    RtfTextConverter textConverter = new RtfTextConverter( textConvertSettings );

    // interpreter
    RtfInterpreterTool.Interpret( rtfStream, logger, textConverter );
    Console.WriteLine( textConverter.PlainText );
} // ConvertRtf2Text

Image Converter

The RtfImageConverter offers a way to extract images from an RTF document. The size of the images can remain unscaled or as they appear in the RTF document. Optionally, the format of the image can be converted to another ImageFormat. File name, type, and size can be controlled by an IRtfVisualImageAdapter. The RtfImageConvertSettings determines the storage location as well as any scaling.

// ----------------------------------------------------------------------
void ConvertRtf2Image( Stream rtfStream )
{
    // logger
    RtfInterpreterListenerFileLogger logger =
       new RtfInterpreterListenerFileLogger( @"c:\temp\RtfInterpreter.log" );

    // image converter
    // convert all images to JPG
    RtfVisualImageAdapter imageAdapter = new RtfVisualImageAdapter( ImageFormat.Jpeg );
    RtfImageConvertSettings imageConvertSettings =
            new RtfImageConvertSettings( imageAdapter );
    imageConvertSettings.ImagesPath = @"c:\temp\images\";
    imageConvertSettings.ScaleImage = true; // scale images
    RtfImageConverter imageConverter = new RtfImageConverter( imageConvertSettings );

    // interpreter
    RtfInterpreterTool.Interpret( rtfStream, logger, imageConverter );
    // all images are saved to the path 'c:\temp\images\'
} // ConvertRtf2Image

XML Converter

The RtfXmlConverter converts the recognized RTF visuals into an XML document. Its RtfXmlConvertSettings allows to specify the used XML namespace and the corresponding prefix.

// ----------------------------------------------------------------------
void ConvertRtf2Xml( Stream rtfStream )
{
    // logger
    RtfInterpreterListenerFileLogger logger =
      new RtfInterpreterListenerFileLogger( @"c:\temp\RtfInterpreter.log" );

    // interpreter
    IRtfDocument rtfDocument = RtfInterpreterTool.BuildDoc( rtfStream, logger );

    // XML convert
    XmlWriterSettings xmlWriterSettings = new XmlWriterSettings();
    xmlWriterSettings.Indent = true;
    xmlWriterSettings.IndentChars = ( "  " );
    string fileName = @"c:\temp\Rtf.xml";
    using ( XmlWriter writer = XmlWriter.Create( fileName, xmlWriterSettings ) )
    {
      RtfXmlConverter xmlConverter = new RtfXmlConverter( rtfDocument, writer );
      xmlConverter.Convert();
      writer.Flush();
    }
} // ConvertRtf2Xml

HTML Converter

The RtfHtmlConverter converts the recognized RTF visuals into an HTML document. File names, type, and size of any encountered images can be controlled through an IRtfVisualImageAdapter, while the RtfHtmlConvertSettings determines storage location, stylesheets, and other HTML document information.

// ----------------------------------------------------------------------
void ConvertRtf2Html( Stream rtfStream )
{
    // logger
    RtfInterpreterListenerFileLogger logger =
      new RtfInterpreterListenerFileLogger( @"c:\temp\RtfInterpreter.log" );

    // image converter
    // convert all images to JPG
    RtfVisualImageAdapter imageAdapter =
       new RtfVisualImageAdapter( ImageFormat.Jpeg );
    RtfImageConvertSettings imageConvertSettings =
                   new RtfImageConvertSettings( imageAdapter );
    imageConvertSettings.ScaleImage = true; // scale images
    RtfImageConverter imageConverter =
            new RtfImageConverter( imageConvertSettings );

    // interpreter
    IRtfDocument rtfDocument = RtfInterpreterTool.Interpret( rtfStream,
                                              logger, imageConverter );

    // html converter
    RtfHtmlConvertSettings htmlConvertSettings =
           new RtfHtmlConvertSettings( imageAdapter );
    htmlConvertSettings.StyleSheetLinks.Add( "default.css" );
    RtfHtmlConverter htmlConverter = new RtfHtmlConverter( rtfDocument,
                                                 htmlConvertSettings );
    Console.WriteLine( htmlConverter.Convert() );
} // ConvertRtf2Html

HTML Styles can be integrated in two ways:

• Inline through RtfHtmlCssStyle in RtfHtmlConvertSettings.Styles
• Link through RtfHtmlConvertSettings.StyleSheetLinks

RtfHtmlConvertScope allows to restrict the target range:

• RtfHtmlConvertScope.All: complete HTML document (=Default)
• ...
• RtfHtmlConvertScope.Content: only paragraphs

RTF Converter Applications

The console applications Rtf2Raw, Rtf2Xml, and Rtf2Html demonstrate the range of functionality of the corresponding base converters, and offer a starting point for the development of our own RTF converter.

Rtf2Raw

The command line application Rtf2Raw converts an RTF document into plain text and images:

Rtf2Raw source-file [destination] [/IT:format] [/BC:color] [/CE:encoding]
                    [/IS] [/XS] [/UI] [/ST] [/SI] [/LD:path] [/IDF] [/IUF] [/LP]
                    [/LI] [/D] [/O] [/HT] [/?]

      source-file       source rtf file
      destination       destination directory (default=source-file directory)
      /IT:format        images type format: bmp, emf, exif, gif, icon, jpg,
                               png, tiff or wmf (default=original)
      /BC:color         image background color name (default=none)
      /CE:encoding      character encoding: ASCII, UTF7, UTF8, Unicode,
                               BigEndianUnicode, UTF32, OperatingSystem (default=UTF8)
      /IS               image scale (default=off)
      /XS               extended image scale - border fix (default=off)
      /UI               enforce unscaled images (default=off)
      /ST               don't save text to the destination (default=on)
      /SI               don't save images to the destination (default=on)
      /LD:path          log file directory (default=destination directory)
      /IDF              ignore duplicated fonts (default=off)
      /IUF              ignore unknown fonts (default=off)
      /LP               write rtf parser log (default=off)
      /LI               write rtf interpreter log (default=off)
      /D                write text to screen (default=off)
      /O                open text in associated application (default=off)
      /HT               show hidden text (default=off)
      /?                this help

Samples:
     Rtf2Raw MyText.rtf
     Rtf2Raw MyText.rtf c:\temp
     Rtf2Raw MyText.rtf c:\temp /CSS:MyCompany.css
     Rtf2Raw MyText.rtf c:\temp /CSS:MyCompany.css,ThisProject.css
     Rtf2Raw MyText.rtf c:\temp /CSS:MyCompany.css,ThisProject.css /IT:png /BC:white
     Rtf2Raw MyText.rtf c:\temp /CSS:MyCompany.css,ThisProject.css /IT:png /BC:white
                                /LD:log /LP /LI

Rtf2Xml

The command line application Rtf2Xml converts an RTF document into an XML document:

Rtf2Xml source-file [destination] [/CE:encoding] [/P:prefix]
                    [/NS:namespace] [/LD:path] [/IDF] [/IUF] [/LP] [/LI] [/HT] [/?]

      source-file       source rtf file
      destination       destination directory (default=source-file directory)
      /CE:encoding      character encoding: ASCII, UTF7, UTF8, Unicode,
                               BigEndianUnicode, UTF32, OperatingSystem (default=UTF8)
      /P:prefix         xml prefix (default=none)
      /NS:namespace     xml namespace (default=none)
      /LD:path          log file directory (default=destination directory)
      /IDF              ignore duplicated fonts (default=off)
      /IUF              ignore unknown fonts (default=off)
      /LP               write rtf parser log (default=off)
      /LI               write rtf interpreter log (default=off)
      /HT               show hidden text (default=off)
      /?                this help

Samples:
     Rtf2Xml MyText.rtf
     Rtf2Xml MyText.rtf c:\temp
     Rtf2Xml MyText.rtf c:\temp /NS:MyNs
     Rtf2Xml MyText.rtf c:\temp /LD:log /LP /LI

Rtf2Html

The command line application Rtf2Html converts an RTF document into an HTML document:

Rtf2Html source-file [destination] [/CSS:names] [/IS] [/ID:path]
                     [/IT:format] [/BC:color] [/XS] [/CE:encoding] [/CS:charset]
                     [CS:mappings] [/DS:scope] [/IDF] [/IUF] [/SH] [/UI] [/SI] [/LD:path]
                     [/LP] [/LI] [/D] [/O] [/HT] [/NBS] [/CH] [/HP:pattern] [/?]

      source-file             source rtf file
      destination             destination directory (default=source-file directory)
      /CSS:name1,name2        style sheet names (default=none)
      /IS                     use inline styles (default=on)
      /ID:path                images directory (default=destination directory)
      /IT:format              images type format: jpg, gif or png (default=jpg)
      /BC:color               image background color name (default=none)
      /XS                     extended image scale - border fix (default=off)
      /CE:encoding            character encoding: ASCII, UTF7, UTF8, Unicode,
                                     BigEndianUnicode, UTF32, OperatingSystem (default=UTF8)
      /CS:charset             document character set used for the HTML header meta-tag
                                     'content' (default=UTF-8)
      /SC:mapping1,mapping2   special character mapping (default=none)
                                     mapping: special-character=replacement
                                     special characters: Tabulator, NonBreakingSpace,
                                     EmDash, EnDash, EmSpace, EnSpace, QmSpace,
                                     Bullet, LeftSingleQuote,
                                     RightSingleQuote, LeftDoubleQuote,
                                     RightDoubleQuote, OptionalHyphen, NonBreakingHyphen
      /DS:scope               document scope, comma separated list of document sections:
                                     doc, html, head, body, content, all (default=all)
      /IDF                    ignore duplicated fonts (default=off)
      /IUF                    ignore unknown fonts (default=off)
      /SH                     don't save HTML to the destination (default=on)
      /SI                     don't save images to the destination (default=on)
      /UI                     enforce unscaled images (default=off)
      /LD:path                log file directory (default=destination directory)
      /LP                     write rtf parser log file (default=off)
      /LI                     write rtf interpreter log file (default=off)
      /D                      display HTML text on screen (default=off)
      /O                      open HTML in associated application (default=off)
      /NBS                    use non-breaking spaces (default=off)
      /HT                     show hidden text (default=off)
      /CH                     convert visual hyperlinks (default=off)
      /HP:pattern             regular expression pattern to recognize visual hyperlinks
      /?                      this help

Samples:
     Rtf2Html MyText.rtf
     Rtf2Html MyText.rtf /DS:body,content
     Rtf2Html MyText.rtf c:\temp
     Rtf2Html MyText.rtf c:\temp /CSS:MyCompany.css
     Rtf2Html MyText.rtf c:\temp /CSS:MyCompany.css,ThisProject.css
     Rtf2Html MyText.rtf c:\temp /CSS:MyCompany.css,ThisProject.css
                                 /ID:images /IT:png /BC:white
     Rtf2Html MyText.rtf c:\temp /CSS:MyCompany.css,ThisProject.css
                                 /ID:images /IT:png /BC:white /LD:log /LP /LI
     Rtf2Html MyText.rtf c:\temp /SC:Tabulator=>,Bullet=:

Projects

The following projects are provided in the RTF converter component:

System Functions

The project Sys contains some base functionality for use in all the other applications/projects:

Acknowledgement

Special thanks to Leon Poyyayil for the design and his support and contribution in the development of this component.

History

• 1^th August, 2013 - v1.7.0.0
• RtfHtmlConverter: Replaced align attributes with style attributes
• 20^th January, 2013 - v1.6.0.0
• RtfHtmlConverter: Added support for HTML tags superscript and subscript
• RtfImageBuilder.VisitTag: Fixed negative image dimensions by enforcing the absolute value
• RtfFontTableBuilder: Added option to ignore duplicated fonts
• RtfInterpreter: Added option to ignore unknown fonts
• RtfInterpreterSettings: New class to customize the interpreter
• RtfInterpreter/RtfInterpreterTool: Added support fo the interpreter settings
• Rtf2Xml/Rtf2Raw/Rtf2Html: New command line argument /IDF to ignore duplicated fonts
• Rtf2Xml/Rtf2Raw/Rtf2Html: New command line argument /IUF to ignore unknown fonts
• Rtf2Raw/Rtf2Html: New command line argument /UI to enforce unscaled images
• 12^th September, 2012 - v1.5.0.0
• ToggleArgument: Fixed parsing of the off-toggle
• RtfInterpreter: Allowed font with zero size
• RtfEmptyHtmlStyleConverter: New class with empty style converter
• Rtf2Html: New command line argument /IS to suppress inline styles using RtfEmptyHtmlStyleConverter
• 3^rd March, 2011 - v1.4.0.0
• RtfTextFormat: Fixed reset of super script in DeriveWithSuperScript
• 26^th April, 2011 - v1.3.0.0
• RtfVisualImageAdapter: Relaxed handling for non-hex image data
• 8^th April, 2011 - v1.2.0.0
• RtfFontBuilder: Relaxed handling for missing font names, generating font name 'UnnamedFont_{fond-id}'
• 14^th February, 2011
• Replaced RtfHmltCpecialCharConverter with RtfHtmlSpecialCharCollection
• RtfHtmlConverter: New property SpecialCharacters
• 25^th January, 2011
• RTF Interpreter: Fixed retroactive paragraph changes
• 1^st December, 2010
• RtfHtmlSpecialCharConverter: New class to handle special character conversion
• RtfHtmlConverterSettings: New property SpecialCharsRepresentation
• RtfHtmlConverter: Added support for special character conversion
• Rtf2Html: New command line argument /SC to control the special character conversion
• Removed projects and solutions for Visual Studio 2005
• Added projects and solutions for Visual Studio 2010
• 20^th August, 2009
• RtfHtmlConverterSettings: New property UseNonBreakingSpaces
• Rtf2Html: New command line argument /NBS to replace spaces with non-breaking spaces (default=off)
• 18^th August, 2009
• Signed assemblies
• RtfImageConverterSettings: New property BackgroundColor
• Rtf2Raw, Rtf2Html: New command line argument /BC for the image background color
• 3^rd August, 2009
• RtfHtmlConverter: Replacing text spaces with non-breaking-spaces
• RtfImageConverter: Fixed missing converted image info in case of undefined target format
• 20^th May, 2009
• RtfHtmlConverter: Added support for Justify alignment
• RtfHtmlConverter: Fixed missing closing tag </ul> for bulleted lists, in cases when ConvertScope is set to Content
• 5^th May, 2009
• RtfSpec: New tag highlight for highlighted text
• RtfInterpreter: Added support for text highlighting
• Rtf2Raw, Rtf2Xml, Rtf2Html: Enumeration ProgramExitCode contains all program exit codes
• 20^th February, 2009
• RtfParser: Various new specialized exceptions based on RtfParserException
• RtfInterpreter: Various new specialized exceptions based on RtfInterpreterException
• Projects Sys, Parser, and Interpreter: Extracted localizable strings to Strings.cs and Strings.resx
• Rtf2Html: New command line argument /DS to control the conversion scope
• 18^th February, 2009
• RtfSpec: New tag nonshppict for alternative images
• RtfInterpreter: Ignoring alternative images
• RtfInterpreterTest: New unit-test for alternative images
• 16^th February, 2009
• RtfImageConvertSettings: New properties ScaleOffset and ScaleExtension to control image scaling
• Rtf2Raw and Rtf2Html: New command line argument /XS to fix the BorderBug
• Changed binaries from debug to release (slightly better performance)
• 5^th February, 2009
• RtfInterpreter: Extended group handling to recognize state transition from header to document in case no other mechanism detects it and the content starts with a group with such a 'destination'
• 3^rd February, 2009
• Rtf2Html: Added support to convert visual hyperlinks
• New command line argument /CH to convert visual hyperlinks (default is off)
• New command line argument /HP:pattern with the Regular Expression pattern to recognize visual hyperlinks (optional)
• Programmatic control with RtfHtmlConvertSettings.ConvertVisualHyperlinks and RtfHtmlConvertSettings.VisualHyperlinkPattern
• Only visible hyperlinks will be converted; does not support hyperlinks which are represented by a display text and the actual hyperlink stored in a (hidden) field content
• Refactored code - or rather 'ReSharped' " src="http://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/smiley_smile.gif" />
• 22^nd October, 2008
• RtfParser: Fixed to properly handle skipping of Unicode alternative representation in case these are written in hex-encoded form
• RtfHtmlConverter: New property DocumentImages which provides information about the converted images using IRtfConvertedImageInfo
• Added ChangeHistory.txt
• 15^th October, 2008
• Added support for tags
• \sub: Changes font size to 2/3 of the current font size and moves 'down' by half the current font size
• \super: Changes font size to 2/3 of the current font size and moves 'up' by half the current font size
• \nosupersub: Resets the 'up'/'down' baseline alignment to zero; Attention: this leaves the font size unchanged as it is not known by the current implementation what the 'previous' font size was; hence, depending on the RTF-writer, this might lead to content that is displayed with a smaller font size than intended
• \v*: Toggles the new IsHidden property of IRtfTextFormat; \v and \v1 turn it on while \v0 turns it off (according to the behavior or 'boolean tags')
• \viewkind: Triggers the transition from interpreter state InHeader to InDocument (but only if the font table is already defined); this supports documents without color table and prevents formatting or content at the beginning from being ignored
• Extended/fixed support for tags
• \dn and \up: will use the specified default value of '6' if none is given in the RTF (instead of resetting to zero)
• RtfTextConverterSettings/ RtfXmlConverterSettings/ RtfHtmlConverterSettings: have a new flag IsShowHiddenText which defaults to false
• RtfTextConverter/ RtfXmlConverter/ RtfHtmlConverter: will only append found text to the plain text buffer if it is not marked hidden in its text format or if the new setting IsShowHiddenText is explicitly set to true
• Rtf2Raw/Rtf2Xml/Rtf2Html: New command-line argument /HT to convert hidden text
• RtfWinForms/RtfWindows: Conversion is considering the text selection
• Added projects and solutions for Visual Studio 2005
• Download now contains the binaries
• 13^th October, 2008
• RtfImageConverter: New property ConvertedImages which provides information about the converted images using IRtfConvertedImageInfo
• 3^rd October, 2008
• RtfHtmlConverter: Fixed encoding of image file names
• 26^th September, 2008
• Added support for \pict tags wrapped in a \*\shppict group
• RtfGroup: Extended debugging visualization
• 23^rd September, 2008
• RtfParser: Fixed local group fonts
• 18^th September, 2008
• RtfSpec: New tag constants for the theme fonts and stylesheet
• RtfParser: Added support for dealing with theme fonts during decoding (ugly but necessary when such fonts are used for hex encoded content)
• RtfFontBuilder: Added support for theme fonts
• RtfFontBuilder: Added support for font names with an alternative representation
• RtfFontTableBuilder: Added support for theme fonts
• RtfInterpeter: Added special support for stylesheets by ignoring their content (to prevent the style names from appearing in the document content)
• Added the test document (in two variants) as unit test input
• 31^st July, 2008
• New Windows Forms sample application which demonstrates a simple conversion from RTF to Text/XML/HTML
• New WPF sample application which demonstrates a simple conversion from RTF to Text/XML/HTML
• IRtfInterpreterContext: Replaced int DefaultFontIndex by string DefaultFontId to support WPF RichTextBox font indexing
• 14^th July, 2008
• RtfHtmlConverter: New class IRtfHtmlStyleConverter which provides external style conversion
• RtfHtmlConverter: Changed default image type from GIF to JPEG
• RtfHtmlConverter: Fixed alignment of images
• 11^th July, 2008
• Support for character set decoding per font
• Support for decoding multi-byte hex-encoded characters (this handles East Asian fonts commonly encoded in this way instead of using Unicode)
• Special treatment for the Windows legacy pseudo codepage 42 (mapped to the ANSI codepage)
• All command line applications: new command line parameter /CE for specifying the output encoding (such as UTF-8 or UTF-16 a.k.a. Unicode)
• Rtf2Html: Fixed HTML-encoded string
• Command line application Rtf2Html: New command line parameter /CS for the HTML character set
• RtfParserTest and RtfInterpreterTest: New unit-tests for multi-byte character set decoding
• Minor bug fixes
• 3^rd July, 2008
• Command line applications: Fixed exception in cases when log parser is not used
• 1^st July, 2008
• Initial public release