---
name: "Ted"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "ted"
version: "2.17-1"
release: "Debian 4.0 (Etch)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/Ted"
---

# Ted(1)

an easy rich text editor

## NAME

Ted - an easy rich text editor

## SYNOPSIS

**Ted** *\[ filename \]*

## DESCRIPTION

This manual page briefly documents the program **Ted.** This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution because the original program does not have a manual page. Instead, it has on-line help; see below.

**Ted** is a text processor running under X Windows on Unix/Linux systems. **Ted** uses RTF (rich text format), a document format supported by Microsoft(tm) word processors, and various other applications, mostly (but not exclusively) on the MS-Windows(tm) platform.

**Ted** is designed to be as compatible as possible with MS-Windows(tm) applications.  Every document produced by  **Ted** should, without any loss of formatting or information, be accepted as a legal .rtf file by MS-Word(tm).  Compatibility in the other direction is more difficult to achieve. **Ted** supports most basic text formatting, as supported by the Microsoft applications. Other formatting instructions and meta information are ignored.

*Ted* includes support for in-line bitmap pictures, postscript printing, spell checking, tables, symbols, and more.

A sample application defaults file can be found in /usr/doc/ted-common/examples/Ted.ad.sample.gz.  This file requires editing to be useful with Debian GNU/Linux, which is why it is not installed by default.

## OPTIONS

Ted supports some options for printing from the command-line.  The options can start with either '++' or '--'.  For the '++' commands, the X11 environment is only used to resolve configurable resources for these calls but it is still needed. This is a known deficiency of Ted.  For the '--' commands, only the default settings compiled into Ted will be used.

- *--\|++*print *file.rtf*

  Print *file.rtf* on the default printer (usually called lp).

- *--\|++*printToPrinter *file.rtf* *printer*

  Print *file.rtf* on the printer named *printer*.

- *--\|++*printPaper *file.rtf* *size*

  Print *file.rtf* on the default printer, using the specified paper *size*.  *Size* should be one of the standard paper sizes known to Ted, i.e. 'a4', 'letter', etc.

- *--\|++*printToPrinterPaper *file.rtf* *printer size*

  *Print file.rtf on the specified printer, using the specified* *paper size.*

- *--\|++printToFile file.rtf file.ps*

  *Convert file.rtf to a PostScript file named file.ps.*

- *--\|++printToFilePaper file.rtf file.ps size*

  *Convert file.rtf to a PostScript file designed for paper of the* *specified size.*

## SEE ALSO

*The on-line help available within Ted.*

## AUTHOR

*This manual page was written by Chris Waters \<xtifr@debian.org\>,* *for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).*