Importing RTF files

March 18, 2006 11:32 AM

What is your favorite way to archive RTF files into one large file? Programs such as Treepad etc. are good for collecting the contents of numerous files into one large archive. What will accomplish this best?

The program must be able to import numerous RTF files at a time and keep the formatting and live links.

Some programs (KeyNote is an example) are unsatisfactory because they do not keep hypertext links intact. (Rather than keeping Foo as a link, they render it as Foo [http://www.foo.com], an unsightly result.)

Acrobat will use the RTF editor to print out the file as PDF, and that does not keep the links live, either.

Anyone have bright ideas on this one?

posted by megatherium to Computers & Internet (2 answers total)

The internal formatting of an RTF document is quite straightforward. To join two documents you can strip the footer from the first and the header from the second document and concatenate them. I wrote a little script a while ago to do this, and it was no more than 10 lines. Too bad I can't find it right now.
posted by koenie at 12:37 PM on March 18, 2006

you could also use microsoft onenote.
posted by bigmusic at 1:30 AM on March 20, 2006