Convert RTF to PDF with Open Source library iText
Version 2.1 of iText has partial support for reading an RTF file and converting it to a PDF. This feature is still under development.
and here is the example on how to parser and convert RTF to PDF(from http://cfsearching.blogspot.com/2009/04/itext-preview-of-things-to-come-someday.html)
import com.lowagie.text.Document;
import com.lowagie.text.DocumentException;
import com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfWriter;
import com.lowagie.text.rtf.parser.RtfParser;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
public class ConvertRTFToPDF {
public static void main(String[] args) {
String inputFile = "sample.rtf";
String outputFile = "sample_converted.pdf";
// create a new document
Document document = new Document();
try {
// create a PDF writer to save the new document to disk
PdfWriter writer = PdfWriter.getInstance(document, new FileOutputStream(outputFile));
// open the document for modifications
document.open();
// create a new parser to load the RTF file
RtfParser parser = new RtfParser(null);
// read the rtf file into a compatible document
parser.convertRtfDocument(new FileInputStream(inputFile), document);
// save the pdf to disk
document.close();
System.out.println("Finished");
} catch (DocumentException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}
