Rich Text Format
Writabletext
document file format developed by Microsoft
Identify it
| Extensions | .rtf |
|---|---|
| MIME types | text/rtfapplication/rtf |
| Signatures | 7b5c72746631 at byte 0 |
| PRONOM | fmt/355fmt/969fmt/45fmt/50fmt/52fmt/53 |
| Wikidata | Q467454 |
| Library of Congress | fdd000473 |
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Open it
- AbiWordOpen source
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- ConTEXTOpen source
- KeynoteOpen source
- LibreOffice WriterOpen source
- LifeLinesOpen source
- PandocOpen source
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- RefDBOpen source
- anydocOpen source
- Apache TikaOpen source
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Convert it
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| To | With | Fidelity | Command and losses |
|---|---|---|---|
| AsciiDoc | Pandoc (WebAssembly) | Partial | in browser Document structure is kept; layout, styles and unsupported elements are lost. |
| DocBook | Pandoc (WebAssembly) | Partial | in browser Document structure is kept; layout, styles and unsupported elements are lost. |
| ePub Format | Pandoc | Partial | pandoc -f rtf -t epub in.rtf -o out.epubDocument structure is kept; layout, styles and unsupported elements are lost. |
| ePub Format | Pandoc (WebAssembly) | Partial | in browser Document structure is kept; layout, styles and unsupported elements are lost. |
| FictionBook | Pandoc (WebAssembly) | Partial | in browser Document structure is kept; layout, styles and unsupported elements are lost. |
| Hypertext Markup Language | Pandoc | Partial | pandoc -f rtf -t html in.rtf -o out.htmlDocument structure is kept; layout, styles and unsupported elements are lost. |
| Hypertext Markup Language | Pandoc (WebAssembly) | Partial | in browser Document structure is kept; layout, styles and unsupported elements are lost. |
| Jupyter notebook file | Pandoc (WebAssembly) | Partial | in browser Document structure is kept; layout, styles and unsupported elements are lost. |
| LaTeX | Pandoc (WebAssembly) | Partial | in browser Document structure is kept; layout, styles and unsupported elements are lost. |
| Markdown | Pandoc | Partial | pandoc -f rtf -t markdown in.rtf -o out.mdDocument structure is kept; layout, styles and unsupported elements are lost. |
| Markdown | Pandoc (WebAssembly) | Partial | in browser Document structure is kept; layout, styles and unsupported elements are lost. |
| Office Open XML Presentation Document, ECMA-376 1st Edition | Pandoc (WebAssembly) | Partial | in browser Document structure is kept; layout, styles and unsupported elements are lost. |
| Office Open XML Wordprocessing Document, ECMA-376 1st Edition | Pandoc | Partial | pandoc -f rtf -t docx in.rtf -o out.docxDocument structure is kept; layout, styles and unsupported elements are lost. |
| Office Open XML Wordprocessing Document, ECMA-376 1st Edition | LibreOffice | Partial | soffice --headless --convert-to docx in.rtfLayout may shift; macros and some features are not kept. |
| Office Open XML Wordprocessing Document, ECMA-376 1st Edition | Pandoc (WebAssembly) | Partial | in browser Document structure is kept; layout, styles and unsupported elements are lost. |
| OpenDocument | Pandoc | Partial | pandoc -f rtf -t odt in.rtf -o out.odtDocument structure is kept; layout, styles and unsupported elements are lost. |
| OpenDocument | LibreOffice | Partial | soffice --headless --convert-to odt in.rtfLayout may shift; macros and some features are not kept. |
| OpenDocument | Pandoc (WebAssembly) | Partial | in browser Document structure is kept; layout, styles and unsupported elements are lost. |
| Org file | Pandoc (WebAssembly) | Partial | in browser Document structure is kept; layout, styles and unsupported elements are lost. |
| LibreOffice | Partial | soffice --headless --convert-to pdf in.rtfFixed layout: the document is no longer editable. | |
| Plain Text File | Pandoc | Partial | pandoc -f rtf -t plain in.rtf -o out.txtText only: all formatting is dropped. |
| Plain Text File | Pandoc (WebAssembly) | Partial | in browser Text only: all formatting is dropped. |
| reStructuredText | Pandoc (WebAssembly) | Partial | in browser Document structure is kept; layout, styles and unsupported elements are lost. |
| Typst code | Pandoc (WebAssembly) | Partial | in browser Document structure is kept; layout, styles and unsupported elements are lost. |
Versions and variants (6)
- Rich Text Format 0Unknown
- Rich Text Format 1.0-1.4Unknown
- Rich Text Format 1.5-1.6Unknown
- Rich Text Format 1.7Unknown
- Rich Text Format 1.8Unknown
- Rich Text Format 1.9Unknown
Sources
From Converters (FFmpeg, ImageMagick, Pandoc, LibreOffice), WebAssembly engines (ImageMagick, FFmpeg, Pandoc, 7-Zip, GDAL, Assimp, resvg), Just Solve the File Format Problem (File Formats Wiki), Wikidata. Updated 2026-10-25.