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[bbottema]

Hi Kay,

I wanted to reach out to you as you have an interesting solution to RTF conversion. The thing is, Simple Java Mail, a library I maintain has had RTF to HTML conversion for many years now (used by thousands of projects), via outlook-message-parser. Recently, I moved the RTF conversion code out to a new project bbottema/rtf-to-html, which contains three approaches users can experiment with.

Since you don't provide a library jar or anything like that, and I have everything set up already (including Maven Central, comprehensive junit tests, static code analyses), would you mind merging your approach into ours, join forces and join as a 4th approach?

Let me know!

[kschroeer]

Hi Benny,

please excuse my late answer. I have just read your message.

First of all thank you for your interest and your suggestion!

Perhaps a few words to my intension: I am of course completely clear that you can do the conversion with a few lines and JEditorPane and EditorKit. But I wanted to completely decouple myself from Swing or native libraries, as I often develop away from desktop applications (for example, Android, but also embedded systems). That's why a pure Java code was important to me.

I have just checked out your project and find your idea very good. I agree.

But you please have to tell me what to do next.

[bbottema]

Ok, great to hear you're on-board for the idea. So the next thing you can do is take a look at our discussion about this, here: bbottema/outlook-message-parser/issues/16.

I guess the next step is to flesh out the idea there and/or just start coding the solution.