Rich Text Format - a document format with an open standard. It enables the exchange of documents containing special layout, markup, or formatting between diverse software and operating systems.
Editors that support RTF:
- Microsoft WordPad (Comes with Windows)
- Microsoft Word (Windows, MacOS)
- TextEdit (The versions that comes with Mac OS X)
- AbiWord (Windows, Linux, BeOS, QNX, other Unices)
- WordPerfect (Windows, formerly Linux and other Unices)
- StarOffice (Solaris, Windows, Linux)
- OpenOffice (Solaris, Windows, Linux, Mac OS X)
RTF is also used as the
clipboard format for formatted text on at least
Windows and
X Windows.
RTF is used by the
rich text control in Windows.
RTF is
not used in the
rich text widgets of either
GTK or
Qt.