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READ.ME - May 27, 1994
Rtf2Ipf v1.0b
Author: Mark Ault
CIS ID: 74101,413
Rtf2Ipf is a program to convert a word processing document saved in Rich
Text Format into a file suitable for compiling into on-line help with
the IPFC compiler. By creating you documentation in your favorite word
processor you have access to all of its editing tools such as spell
checker, thesaurus, grammar checkers, etc. You may also find you can
keep both on-line and printed documentation in sync from the same source
document.
This package is free for anyone to use or distribute in its entirety.
I am not responsible for any problems that this program may cause.
I do ask that if you find this program useful then please send me a note.
This is only so that I may get an idea if anyone is using the program and
if further enhancements would be worth my time.
Files
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read.me - this file
rtf2ipf.exe - the executable program
rtf2ipf.sam - soft copy of the documentation in AmiPro v2.0 format
rtf2ipf.ipj - the 'IPF project file' used to create the file rtf2ipf.ipf
rtf2ipf.rtf - the documentation saved as Rich Text Format (RTF)
rtf2ipf.ipf - the documentation ready to be compiled by IPFC to create an
on-line OS/2 book
rtf2ipf.sty - the style sheet used to create the documentation.
Current version of RTF2IPF can always be found in the following CIS forums:
IBM OS/2 Developer 1 Forum (OS2DF1) section - Development Tools
IBM Systems Forum (IBMSYS) section - OS/2 Utilities
Installation
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You should have received the Rtf2Ipf utility as a single self extracting ZIP
file named IPF10B.EXE. To install the utility create a directory to hold the
utility and run the IPF10B.EXE program from a DOS window or full screen. No
parameters are needed.
Once you have the files decompressed you may want to compile the manual with
IPFC. To compile the manual into an .INF file use the following command from
an OS/2 window or full screen:
IPFC RTF2IPF.IPF /INF
Once the on-line book has been created you may view it using the following
command from an OS/2 window or full screen:
START VIEW RTF2IPF.INF
If you find yourself using the on-line book often you may want to create a
program object on you desktop or a folder for convience. You may also want
to print the documentation. You can either print the documentation from
within the on-line viewer or for better results you may want to try to import
the original AmiPro document into your favorite word processor. If that is
not successful try importing the .RTF version of the document as most word
processors have a pretty good filter for .RTF files.
Change History
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07/04/94 - Released version 1.0b.
Fixed an assertion error caused when the RTF file did not
explicitly define a '\s1' style. The first style is style
number one implicitly.
Added some up front editing of the .IPJ file. In particular
a title is required as well as a Heading1Level.
Added memory auditing routines. All 'malloc' / 'free' pairs
have been replace with debugging wrappers. Only one malloc /
free pair remains because when I replace it memory gets too
fragmented and I start having problems allocating memory.
Cleaned up the horrible long series of if statements used to
translate special characters to the IPF output equivalents.
This logic is now nicely table driving as it shoulg have been
in the first place.
06/05/94 - Released version 1.0a.
Fixed a bug that would cause an infinite loop whenever your
document had more than one header or footer definition in the
RTF file. Also added support for heading levels 4-9.
05/18/94 - Released version 1.0