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ConvertTo-OfficeRtf

Aliases: ConvertTo-Rtf
Module PSWriteOffice
Aliases
ConvertTo-Rtf
Inputs
OfficeIMO.Word.WordDocument
Outputs
System.String System.IO.FileInfo

Converts Word, HTML, PDF, or Markdown input to RTF.

Syntax

ConvertTo-OfficeRtf [-OutputPath <String>] [-PassThru] -WordPath <String> [<CommonParameters>]
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Parameter set: WordPath
ConvertTo-OfficeRtf [-OutputPath <String>] [-PassThru] -WordDocument <WordDocument> [<CommonParameters>]
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Parameter set: WordDocument
ConvertTo-OfficeRtf [-BasePath <String>] [-FontFamily <String>] -Html <String> [-OutputPath <String>] [-PassThru] [-StylesheetContent <String[]>] [-StylesheetPath <String[]>] [<CommonParameters>]
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Parameter set: Html
ConvertTo-OfficeRtf [-BasePath <String>] [-FontFamily <String>] -HtmlPath <String> [-OutputPath <String>] [-PassThru] [-StylesheetContent <String[]>] [-StylesheetPath <String[]>] [<CommonParameters>]
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Parameter set: HtmlPath
ConvertTo-OfficeRtf [-OutputPath <String>] [-PassThru] -PdfPath <String> [<CommonParameters>]
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Parameter set: PdfPath
ConvertTo-OfficeRtf -Markdown <String> [-OutputPath <String>] [-PassThru] [-PreserveRawHtmlAsText] [<CommonParameters>]
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Parameter set: Markdown
ConvertTo-OfficeRtf -MarkdownPath <String> [-OutputPath <String>] [-PassThru] [-PreserveRawHtmlAsText] [<CommonParameters>]
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Parameter set: MarkdownPath

Examples

Authored help example

Convert Word to RTF.

New-OfficeWord -Path .\Report.docx { WordParagraph -Text 'Summary' }
ConvertTo-OfficeRtf -WordPath .\Report.docx -OutputPath .\Report.rtf -PassThru

Loads the Word document and saves an RTF file using OfficeIMO.Word.Rtf.

Convert HTML to RTF.

ConvertTo-OfficeRtf -Html '<h1>Report</h1>' -OutputPath .\Report.rtf

Creates a Word document from HTML and serializes it to RTF.

Convert PDF to RTF.

ConvertTo-OfficeRtf -PdfPath .\Report.pdf -OutputPath .\Report.rtf

Uses OfficeIMO.Rtf.Pdf's semantic PDF reader to write RTF output.

Convert Markdown to RTF.

ConvertTo-OfficeRtf -MarkdownPath .\Report.md -OutputPath .\Report.rtf -PassThru

Parses Markdown and writes RTF using OfficeIMO.Rtf.Markdown.

Parameters

-OutputPath String optionalaliases: OutPath
Optional destination RTF path. When omitted, raw RTF text is returned.
-PassThru SwitchParameter optional
Emit a FileInfo when saving to disk.
-WordPath String requiredsets: WordPath
Path to a .docx file to convert to RTF.
-WordDocument WordDocument requiredpipeline: True (ByValue)sets: WordDocument
Word document instance to convert to RTF.
-BasePath String optionalsets: Html, HtmlPath
Base path used to resolve relative HTML resources.
-FontFamily String optionalsets: Html, HtmlPath
Optional font family for HTML to Word conversion before RTF serialization.
-Html String requiredsets: Html
HTML markup to convert to RTF through the Word HTML converter.
-StylesheetContent String[] optionalsets: Html, HtmlPath
Inline CSS stylesheets to apply during HTML conversion.
-StylesheetPath String[] optionalsets: Html, HtmlPath
Paths to CSS stylesheets to apply during HTML conversion.
-HtmlPath String requiredsets: HtmlPath
Path to an HTML file to convert to RTF.
-PdfPath String requiredsets: PdfPath
Path to a PDF file to convert to semantic RTF.
-Markdown String requiredsets: Markdown
Markdown text to convert to RTF.
-PreserveRawHtmlAsText SwitchParameter optionalsets: Markdown, MarkdownPath
Preserve raw HTML Markdown blocks as plain text in the RTF output.
-MarkdownPath String requiredsets: MarkdownPath
Path to a Markdown file to convert to RTF.

Common Parameters

This command supports the common parameters: -Debug, -ErrorAction, -ErrorVariable, -InformationAction, -InformationVariable, -OutVariable, -OutBuffer, -PipelineVariable, -Verbose, -WarningAction, and -WarningVariable.

For more information, see about_CommonParameters.