i need to change my documents from RTF to HTML how do i do this

If you are using Pages, you can use File > Export to export to Word, PDF, RTF, plain text, or epub. All of these can be read on Windows. TextEdit can export to Word, PDF, RTF, plain text, or HTML. Again all of these can be read on Windows.

Are you having a specific problem?

Textutil will convert the RTF files to HTML, with attributed text, and URL links retained. However, any formatting in the original RTF document will be lost, and the resulting HTML content will just be a margin to margin text dump when viewed in the browser.

If you want to reformat that HTML into an improved presentation, then additional HTML and CSS3 styling is required.

hmartiii wrote:

Yes, I am using textedit and if i click file export it just comes up with export to PDF, I really need it to be a HTML file or word document

For TextEdit you do Format > Make Rich Text if necessary and then Save and choose the File Format from a menu.

Hi hmartiii,

In TextEdit, if you have already saved (as you should), you need Save As.. to get the File Format menu that Tom refers to.

In Mountain Lion, hold down the option key when using the File Menu. "Duplicate" changes to "Save As..."

Here is the File Format in the Save As... dialogue:

Regards,

Ian.

Of course, we could go old school and use the Terminal command-line to convert the following file types to HTML:

• text
• rtf
• rtfd (text+image)
• doc
• docx
• xml
• odt (LibreOffice/OpenOffice Writer
• webarchive

While in Finder, press shift+command+U. This will open the /Applications/Utility folder. Double click on Terminal to launch it. The assumption (for simplicity) is that the file you want to convert from one of the listed file formats is sitting in your login directory.

Triple-click on the following command to select it. Copy (command+C) it to the clipboard. Click your mouse inside the Terminal app to gain keyboard focus. Paste (command+v) the command below into the Terminal. Backspace over the sample filename and replace it with the compatible filename you want to convert. A new HTML file is written as filename.html. Your original file is unchanged.

/usr/bin/textutil -convert html foo.doc

Back in a Finder window, you can double-click the new filename.html and it will open in Safari. Any images in the source document will be placed in an adjacent folder. The conversion does a reasonable job of text and image placement, but is no substitute for fine-tuning via Cascading Style Sheets (CSS).

I wrote a folder-action that allows one to drag and drop a candidate file on it and produce an HTML file.

Thanks for this gem; I have a folder full of RTFs which I need in HTML. This makes it trivial to fix them.