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In article <375mrlg.mslade@netcom.com> mslade@netcom.com (Michael Slade) writes:
> I'm looking for c code that parses MicroSoft's Rich Text Format
> and produces reasonable PostScript.
> A close second would be a good parser for Rich Text Format.
> 
> Thanks in advance for any suggestions.


Microsoft Word does a reasonable job of that.  :-)
 

Seriously, RTF and PostScript are completely different animals.  RTF
describes a document as a linear stream of text with formatting and
layout commands interspersed.  PostScript describes a two-dimensional
finished page, but has no concept of text as a stream, or line
wrapping, or that things proabbly shouldn't print on top of each other
or anything like that.

To convert RTF to PostScript you really would have to effectively
rewrite MS Word yourself -- much easier to just use AppleEvents to
reuse the existing tool than to do it all yourself...

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