Rich Text Format
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Rich Text Format

NameRich Text Format
Extension.rtf
Mimetext/rtf
Type Code'RTF.'
Uniform Typepublic.rtf
Magic{\rtf
OwnerMicrosoft
Latest Release Version1.9.1
Latest Release Date19 March 2008(age 2)
Genredocument file format
FreeNo

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The Rich Text Format (often abbreviated RTF) is a proprietary document file format with published specification developed by Microsoft Corporation in 1987 for Microsoft products and for cross-platform document interchange.

Most word processors are able to read and write some versions of RTF. There are several different revisions of RTF specification and portability of files will depend on what version of RTF is being used. RTF specifications are changed and published with major Microsoft Word/Microsoft Office versions.

It should not be confused with enriched text (mimetype "text/enriched" of RFC 1896) or its predecessor Rich Text (mimetype "text/richtext" of RFC 1341 and 1521) which are completely different specifications.

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Version changes :
RTF specifications for Microsoft Word
RTF version Publication date Microsoft Word version MS Word release date Notes
1.0 1987 Microsoft Word 3 1987 latest revision 6/92; the 1992 revision defines support for Microsoft Object Linking and Embedding (OLE) objects and Macintosh Edition Manager subscriber objects
1.1 font embedding - font data may be located inside the file
1.2 1993
1.3 January 1994 Microsoft Word 6 1993 1/94 GC0165
1.4 September 1995 Microsoft Word 95/Word 7 1995
1.5 April 1997 Microsoft Word 97/Word 8 1997 Unicode RTF - supports 16-bit Unicode character encoding scheme
1.6 May 1999 Microsoft Word 2000/Word 9 1999
1.7 August 2001 Microsoft Word 2002/Word 10 2001 8/2001 � Word 2002 RTF Specification
1.8 April 2004 Microsoft Word 2003/Word 11 2003 10/2003 � Word 2003 RTF Specification
1.9.1 19. March 2008
(1.9 - January 2007)		 Microsoft Word 2007/Word 12 2006 use of XML markup - Custom XML Tags, SmartTags, Math elements in an RTF document - following the Office Open XML specification (Ecma-376, Part 4)

Multi-purpose office document file formats

Editable document formatsCompound Document Format * Microsoft Office XML formats * Office Open XML * Open Document Architecture * OpenDoc * OpenDocument * OpenOffice.org XML * Revisable-Form Text * Rich Text Format * Uniform Office Format * Word Document
Fixed document formatsDjVu * Envoy * Open XML Paper Specification * Portable Document Format



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