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Rich Text Format - Definition and Overview |
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RTF (usually referred to as such) stands for Rich Text Format, a document file format developed by Microsoft at least as early as 1987 for cross-platform document interchange that most text processing programs are able to read and write. RTF uses the ANSI, PC-8, Macintosh, or IBM® PC character set to control the representation and formatting of a document, both on the screen and in print. Since version 1.6, RTF supports the Unicode character set. With the RTF Specification, documents created under different operating systems and with different software applications can be transferred between those operating systems and applications. The simple example of an RTF file:
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DHAMAN
{\rtf
Hello!\par
This codes in file, a document with specific font, fontsize, or color of the texts, or tables with different border styles can be easily created, explaining its popularity among programmers.
The RTF format is the default rich text format for Mac OS X's default editor TextEdit and Microsoft Windows' default editor WordPad.
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