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There are many different revisions of Microsoft's proprietary Rich Text Format and portability of files will depend on what version of RTF is being used.
There are many different revisions of Microsoft's proprietary Rich Text Format and portability of files will depend on what version of RTF is being used.
Microsoft quietly stopped updating the RTF specification after version 1.9.1 in 2008. They've actively discouraged its use in favor of DOCX.
Legacy proprietary formats (such as .doc or .rtf) which are no longer actively developed should be avoided. In the future, if not already, they will be increasingly difficult to work with (have you tried to preserve formatting while opening Microsoft Works .wps or .xlr file in a modern document editor recently?).
Like ".doc," RTF is a proprietary file format, but it has been designed to be more widely compatible and transferable.
Although not intended to be a markup language like HTML, RTF is based on text, and at the time that meant ASCII not Unicode.
Although Rich Text Format is not a markup language, it uses a simple markup-like syntax to add formatting such as bold text to a document.
RTF with complex tables? Open in Word or LibreOffice first, visually check the table, then export. RTF table spec is fragile; silent-converters break nested rows.
Enterprises hold decades of documents in legacy formats—RTF, DOC, WPD (WordPerfect), WKS (Lotus). These formats are increasingly difficult to open, search, and maintain.
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There are many different revisions of Microsoft's proprietary Rich Text Format and portability of files will depend on what version of RTF is being used.
RTF is a document format. RTF is not intended to be a markup language anyone would use for coding entire documents by hand (although it has been done!).
The following legacy file formats will no longer be accepted during file upload: ... .rtf (convert to .docx)
The most recent version of TextEdit, included with OS X Leopard, can open and edit files in rich text format (.rtf), Microsoft's old and new Word formats (.doc and .docx), and the OpenDocument format (.odt) used by OpenOffice.
Like ".doc," RTF is a proprietary file format, but it has been designed to be more widely compatible and transferable.
There are many different revisions of Microsoft's proprietary Rich Text Format and portability of files will depend on what version of RTF is being used.
First and foremost, since Windows no longer has a default RTF reader, you won't be able to open .rtf files by default unless you have Word installed.