Newsgroups:  comp.os.linux.misc
Date:        Tue, 11 Nov 2003 13:29:54 -0500

> What I want is a small, fast *viewer*.  And maybe a *simple filter*
> that outputs either plain text or PostScript.

A few minutes browsing on Google ("rtf viewer linux") lead me to the SuperLinux Encyclopedia page on file viewers <URL:http://slencyclopedia.berlios.de/editors.html>, which mentions catdoc, which, after a bit of redirect chasing, I found here <URL:http://www.45.free.net/~vitus/ice/catdoc/>. Catdoc's page has a nice section on "competing" products, and it looks like either it or one of the other programs mention would fit your requirements.

Ed Blackman

> > Catdoc does not seem to do anything with RTF files other than deal with
> > character code weirdnesses.  At least with the few RTF files I have
> > laying around.
>
> Go and get rtfreader. Works pretty much ok here.