Rich Text Format

RTF (usually referred to as such) stands for Rich Text Format, a document file format developed by Microsoft for cross-platform document interchange that most text processing programs are able to read and write. RTF is a poorly standardised format with incompatibilities reported even between different Microsoft applications, and tends to be rarely used for document distribution. The simple example of an RTF file:\n {\\rtf\n Hello\n \\par\n This is a\n little {\\b text}.\n \\par\n The End\n }\nwill show as \n Hello\n This is a little text.\n The End Paragraphs have to be explicitly marked with \\par and {\\b ....} marks bold text. This syntax is similar to that of TeX. The RTF format is the default rich text format for Mac OS X's default editor TextEdit and Microsoft Windows' default editor WordPad.

External Links

\n*Official RTF Spec via Web - in many formats including HQX, manpages, rtf, PS. Also info on RTF to something translators. Includes versions 1.3 and 1.5.\n*RTF Spec for Word 97 features - you will also need the full version 1.4 of the RTF spec.\n*A link to the RTF v1.3 spec\n*http://www.biblioscape.com/rtf15_spec.htm RTF v1.5 spec\n*[1] (Version 1.6 April 2002)