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Viewing RTF files

Submitted by Guest on Thu, 31/03/2011 - 16:00
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We frequently get specialist reports sent to us as rtf email attachments. Having just needed a new server I am now finding that when you try and open these rtf patient attachments they only have a pdf icon and if you click on this it stalls the whole network.

Previously you could edit how attachments were handled in Firefox/Options/Applications but the new version on the server does not seem to allow this.

Has anyone got any suggestions on how to handle this?

 

Thanks,

Nick

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Re: Viewing RTF files

Submitted by Matt C on Fri, 01/04/2011 - 00:38.

Hi Nick,

Have you played with google doc add on for Firefox?

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/google-docs-viewer-pdf-do...

It costs $ (like 3 I think) and works through right click context menus. I know that the same code in Gmail can open rtfs (just ignores images).

 

Cheers,

Matt C

Re: Viewing RTF files

Submitted by tony on Fri, 01/04/2011 - 09:16.

Hi Nick,

I think the problem is if you click the second PDF icon it actually asks OpenOffice to convert the RTF file to a PDF which is not working for some reason.

The first PDF icon is actually the raw RTF file (I think PDF ion is defualt if no icon defined for particular file type ..  will check ).  If you click this then it should download the rtf file to the browser and ask you what application you want to use to open it.  You should select Word if installed or a suitable application that can view RTF files.

Cheers

Tony

Re: Viewing RTF files

Submitted by tanderson on Thu, 14/04/2011 - 21:26.

In 1.5, RTF documents will have an MS-Word document icon.

In addition, the painfully slow conversion from RTF to PDF has been fixed.

 

-Tim

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