document Format

RTF File Format

Rich Text Format is a cross-platform document format developed by Microsoft in 1987. It encodes styled text, font tables, and basic formatting into 7-bit ASCII control words.

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Technical Specifications

Extensions	.rtf
MIME Types	application/rtf, text/rtf
Category	Document
Engine Tier	tier2-wasm
Magic Bytes / Sniffing	0x7B 0x5C 0x72 0x74 0x66
Opens With	Microsoft WordPad, Apple TextEdit, Microsoft Word
Good For	Transferring styled documents between different text editors without binary dependencies.
Not Recommended For	Modern vector graphics, complex page columns, and small file sizes.

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