An excellent PDF library is iText.
<http://www.lowagie.com/iText/>

I don't think it knows anything about RTF, though.

Dimitri Sverdlov schrieb:

Maybe one step to the solution is to build an intermediate document in a
standard document format first.

There are some Java-based RTF readers around (including my ScroogeXHTML
converter), but I don't know if there is already a RTF -> XSL:FO
converter for Java, XSL:FO would make it 'easier' to convert to PDF.

ScroogeXHTML internally uses a DOM-like structure which could be used to
analyze and process the RTF content in a more generic way - including
some very advanced properties for international languages, like DBCS,
Unicode, and right-to-left text direction. However, it does not
understand some more difficult layout elements like tables.

Michael Justin

I just evaluated a product from Novosoft called rtf2fo (
http://rtf2fo.com/index.html) which takes an rtf file and generates
intermidate FO which you can then use the apache fop library to
generate PDF.  Unfortunately, the resulting PDF didn't look like the
RTF.  It complained about Unsupported columns of different widths and
the spacing was not the same as the original.  You may have better
luck.

Margaret