RTF Export

RTF Export allows exporting content as RTF documents. An RTF document similiar to "view" tab is generated with one click.

Current release
RTF Export 0.2.1

Released Feb 17, 2006 — tested with Plone 2.1.2

Bugfixes
More about this release…

Project Description

Purpose

RTF is a standard text document format (trimmed down Microsoft Word format). All word processors can read and write RTF documents. Exporting documents in RTF is handy if

One needs to send pages as mail
One needs to edit extracted pages
One needs to print pages

Licence

GPL, read licence.txt

Requirements

Plone 2.1
Optionally, DataGridField component is supported

Features

Adds "Export RTF" action to your items
Custom header and footer for exported documents
Exporting text based fields
Exporting DateTimeField
Exporting DataGridField as a table
Exporting FixedPointField
Unicode support
Easy filenames: convert spaces, non-Latin characters etc. browser unfriendly characters to more readable for download filenames

Future features

Sorting out encoding and charsets
Image export
HTML->RTF conversion for formatted text so that rich edit fields are exported propeply

Quality assurance

Tested with Zope 2.8.5, Plone 2.1.2
Some manual tests were performend
This software is very much beta quality: do not expect it to work without manual hassle

Usage

See instructions in examples folder. You need to do some Python coding to integrate RTF Export with your item types.

Internal

RTFExport uses internally PyRTF library developed by Simon Cusack.

There are some problems with live Product refresh and PyRTF. You'll get weird "self.doc = Document() TypeError: 'NoneType' object is not callable" errors.