[Bug 489128] [NEW] unrtf has no way to disable the header that's printed out

[Rory McCann]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: unrtf

I created a simple RTF file in OpenOffice with one word "testing". I
then used unrtf to convert it to text on the command line like so:

unrtf -t text test.rtf 2>/dev/null

(Note the 2>/dev/null is to work around LP #489122)

this is output I got:

### Translation from RTF performed by UnRTF, version 0.19.2
### For information about this marvellous program,
### please go to http://www.gnu.org/software/unrtf/unrtf.html
### document uses ANSI character set
### font table contains 4 fonts total

AUTHOR: Rory McCann
### creaton date: 27 November 2009 09:54 
### revision date: 
### last printed: 
### comments: StarWriter

-----------------
testing


The stuff before the "----------" is header stuff about the file, it is not in the RTF file itself. There should be a way to turn this off. I, the user, want to get the plain text equivilant of this file, all these #### lines are not in the original file, so there should be some other way to just get What You See In OpenOffice.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Nov 27 09:59:38 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: unrtf 0.19.3-1.1
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_IE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-15.50-generic
SourcePackage: unrtf
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-15-generic i686
XsessionErrors:
 (gnome-settings-daemon:1841): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
 (gnome-settings-daemon:1841): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
 (nautilus:2067): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences_get_boolean: assertion `preferences_is_initialized ()' failed
 (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:2136): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed
 (gnome-panel:1940): Gtk-WARNING **: gtk_widget_size_allocate(): attempt to allocate widget with width -5 and height 24

** Affects: unrtf (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: apport-bug i386

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unrtf has no way to disable the header that's printed out
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