[FOP-1680] RTF files don't work in TextEdit.app or Pages.app on the Mac

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.95
• Component/s: renderer/rtf
• Environment: Operating System: Mac OS X 10.4; Platform: PC
• External issue ID: 47481
• Assignee: fop-dev
• Reporter: Mark Watson
• Created: 06/Jul/09 09:22
• Updated: 01/Apr/12 06:24
• Resolved: 01/Apr/12 06:24

Description

Generated RTF files from fop don't work on TextEdit.app or Pages.app. When I try to open them i get an error that says "The document “helloworld.rtf” could not be opened. The file is not in the right format. The file might be corrupted, truncated, or in a different format than you expect."

I edited the rtf and narrowed it down to the font declaration section.

FOP sample font declaration:
{\fonttbl;

{ \f0 Arial}{ \f1 Symbol}{ \f2 Times New Roman}{ \f3 sans-serif}
}
(for a simple document)

TextEdit.app sample font declaration: {\fonttbl\f0\fswiss\fcharset0 Helvetica;}

The issue is the ";" after "fonttbl". When I change the FOP declaration to this it works fine in TextEdit.app:
{\fonttbl {\f0 Arial} { \f1 Symbol} { \f2 Times New Roman} { \f3 sans-serif}

}

I don't know anything about how the RTF spec works, so this may be different in larger documents.