Ted è una Gui per la visualizzazione e la modifica di file Rtf che grazie a degli script permette di convertire tali Rtf in Pdf , Html ecc.. 
Le dipendenze di questo pacchetto sono: 
 
Per installare il pacchetto ted si deve inanzitutto installare la libreria lesstif2 ( le altre dipenze solitamente sono già soddisfatte
sudo aptitude install lesstif2
 scaricare i pacchetti .deb da 
launchpad 
- prima di tutto il file ted-common ( al momento siamo alla versione 2.17) 
wget http://launchpadlibrarian.net/11313542/ted-common_2.17-1ubuntu1_all.deb
sudo dpkg -i ted-common_2.17-1ubuntu1_all.deb
 
- nel mio caso devo installare il pacchetto per processore 64bit
wget https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ted/2.17-1ubuntu1/+build/489695/+files/ted_2.17-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i ted_2.17-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb
 
- Con i seguenti script è possibile convertire tramite shell i documenti rtf in vari formati. 
 
- rtf2pdf.sh 
#!/bin/sh
########################################################################
#
#  Convert an rtf document to pdf format using 'Ted' and 'GhostScript'.
#
#  Usage rtf2pdf.sh --paper paper something.rtf something.pdf
#  Or  rtf2pdf.sh something.rtf something.pdf
#
#  Valid values for paper are a4, a5, a6, letter, legal and executive
#
#  This is an example. Refer to http://www.nllgg.nl/Ted/index.html for the
#  'Ted' documentation.
#
#  If you want 'Ted' to set configurable resources, use
#  Ted  --printToFilePaper --setProperty ... in the Ted way. E.G:
#  Ted  --setProperty usePostScriptFilters 1 \
# --setProperty usePostScriptIndexedImages 1  \
# --setProperty afmDirectory /usr/share/ghostscript/fonts  \
# --setProperty fontDirectory /usr/share/ghostscript/fonts  \
# --setProperty ghostscriptFontmap \
#    /usr/share/ghostscript/6.53/lib/Fontmap \
# --setProperty ghostscriptFontToXmapping \
#    /usr/share/ghostscript/6.53/lib/fonts.dir \
# --printToFilePaper .....
#  This has the advantage over the ++printToFilePaper call and X11 
#  resource settings with -xrm Ted.usePostScriptFilters:1 style arguments 
#  that it does not require an X11 server.
#  The settings can also be stored in /etc/Ted.properties or in 
#  $(HOME)/.Ted.properies files. Refer to the Ted documentation for 
#  more details.
#
#  The file /usr/share/ghostscript/version/doc/Ps2pdf.htm documents 
#  many settings for ghostscript that influence the generation of pdf.
#  The actual meaning of the parameters is explained in Adobe technical 
#  note #5151: "Acobat Distiller Parameters". With some effort, note #5151 
#  can be found using the search facility on www.adobe.com.
#
#  To disable jpeg compression of 8 bit per component images:
#      -dAutoFilterColorImages=false -dEncodeColorImages=false
#  or
#      -dAutoFilterColorImages=false -sColorImageFilter=FlateEncode
#  to enable: (default)
#      -dAutoFilterColorImages=true
#
#  To produce uncompressed pdf:
#      -dCompressPages=false
#  To produce compressed pdf: (default)
#      -dCompressPages=true
#
#  Depending on your temper, you could also have a look at the pdfopt script
#
########################################################################
PAPER=
PARAMS="--setProperty usePostScriptFilters 1 --setProperty usePostScriptIndexedImages 1"
ps=/tmp/$$.ps
trap "rm -f ${ps}" 0
case $# in
    1|2)
 ;;
    3|4)
 case $1 in
     --paper)
  ;;
     *)
  echo $0: '$1='$1 'Expected --paper'
  exit 1
  ;;
 esac
 case $2 in
     a4|a5|a6|letter|legal|executive)
  PAPER=$2
  ;;
     *)
  echo $0: '$2='$2 'Expected a4|a5|a6|letter|legal|executive'
  exit 1
  ;;
 esac
 shift; shift;
 ;;
    *)
 echo $0: '$#='$#
 exit 1
 ;;
esac
case $# in
    1)
 rtf="$1";
 pdf=`basename "$1" .rtf`.pdf
 ;;
    2)
 rtf="$1";
 pdf="$2";
 ;;
    *)
 echo $0: '$#='$#
 exit 1
 ;;
esac
case $PAPER in
    ?*)
 Ted ${PARAMS} --printToFilePaper "$rtf" "$ps" $PAPER
 gs -q -dNOPAUSE    \
  -sDEVICE=pdfwrite   \
  -sPAPERSIZE=$PAPER   \
  -sOutputFile="$pdf"   \
  "$ps"     \
  -c quit
 ;;
    *)
 Ted ${PARAMS} --printToFile "$rtf" "$ps"
 gs -q -dNOPAUSE    \
  -sDEVICE=pdfwrite   \
  -sOutputFile="$pdf"   \
  "$ps"     \
  -c quit
 ;;
esac
 
- rtf2ps.sh
#!/bin/sh
########################################################################
#
#  Convert an rtf document to PostScript format using 'Ted'.
#
#  Usage rtf2ps.sh --paper paper something.rtf something.ps
#  Or  rtf2ps.sh something.rtf something.ps
#
#  Valid values for paper are a4, a5, a6, letter, legal and executive
#
#  This is an example. Refer to http://www.nllgg.nl/Ted/index.html for the
#  'Ted' documentation.
#
#  If you want 'Ted' to set configurable resources, use
#  Ted  --printToFilePaper --setProperty ... in the Ted way. E.G:
#  Ted  --setProperty usePostScriptFilters 1 \
# --setProperty usePostScriptIndexedImages 1  \
# --setProperty afmDirectory /usr/share/ghostscript/fonts  \
# --setProperty fontDirectory /usr/share/ghostscript/fonts  \
# --setProperty ghostscriptFontmap \
#    /usr/share/ghostscript/6.53/lib/Fontmap \
# --setProperty ghostscriptFontToXmapping \
#    /usr/share/ghostscript/6.53/lib/fonts.dir \
# --printToFilePaper .....
#  This has the advantage over the ++printToFilePaper call and X11 
#  resource settings with -xrm Ted.usePostScriptFilters:1 style arguments 
#  that it does not require an X11 server.
#  The settings can also be stored in /etc/Ted.properties or in 
#  $(HOME)/.Ted.properies files. Refer to the Ted documentation for 
#  more details.
#
########################################################################
PAPER=
case $# in
    1|2)
 ;;
    3|4)
 case $1 in
     --paper)
  ;;
     *)
  echo $0: '$1='$1 'Expected --paper'
  exit 1
  ;;
 esac
 case $2 in
     a4|a5|a6|letter|legal|executive)
  PAPER=$2
  ;;
     *)
  echo $0: '$2='$2 'Expected a4|a5|a6|letter|legal|executive'
  exit 1
  ;;
 esac
 shift; shift;
 ;;
    *)
 echo $0: '$#='$#
 exit 1
 ;;
esac
case $# in
    1)
 rtf="$1";
 ps=`basename "$1" .rtf`.ps
 ;;
    2)
 rtf="$1";
 ps="$2";
 ;;
    *)
 echo $0: '$#='$#
 exit 1
 ;;
esac
case $PAPER in
    ?*)
 Ted --printToFilePaper "$rtf" "$ps" $PAPER
 ;;
    *)
 Ted --printToFile "$rtf" "$ps"
 ;;
esac
 
- rtf2txt
#!/bin/sh
########################################################################
#
#  Convert an rtf document to plain text format using 'Ted'.
#
#  Usage rtf2txt.sh something.rtf something.txt
#
#  This is an example. Refer to http://www.nllgg.nl/Ted/index.html for the
#  'Ted' documentation.
#
########################################################################
case $# in
    1)
 rtf="$1";
 txt=`basename "$1" .rtf`.txt
 ;;
    2)
 rtf="$1";
 txt="$2";
 ;;
    *)
 echo $0: '$#='$#
 exit 1
 ;;
esac
Ted --saveTo "$rtf" "$txt"
 
- rtftohtml
#!/bin/sh
########################################################################
#
#  Convert an rtf document to plain text format using 'Ted'.
#
#  Usage rtf2txt.sh something.rtf something.txt
#
#  This is an example. Refer to http://www.nllgg.nl/Ted/index.html for the
#  'Ted' documentation.
#
########################################################################
case $# in
    1)
 rtf="$1";
 txt=`basename "$1" .rtf`.html
 ;;
    2)
 rtf="$1";
 html="$2";
 ;;
    *)
 echo $0: '$#='$#
 exit 1
 ;;
esac
Ted ++saveTo "$rtf" "$html"