Documents.rtf
RTF viewer
About RTF
Rich Text Format document.
RTF (Rich Text Format) is Microsoft's cross-platform document format that pre-dates DOCX. Files are plain ASCII with a stack of brace-delimited groups and \controlword directives — easy to parse without a heavy office stack. This viewer ships a small in-house RTF parser that handles paragraph and line breaks, bold/italic/underline runs, \'XX hex escapes (decoded via Windows-1252) and \uN Unicode escapes per the spec. Tables, images, font tables, and complex page geometry are deliberately skipped to keep the read clean. Switch to Source mode to see the raw RTF stream.
FAQ
- How faithfully does it render?
- Body text, paragraphs, bold, italic, and underline survive cleanly. Tables, embedded images, columns, and fancy page layouts are intentionally stripped — RTF's surface area is enormous and a clean read beats a half-broken layout. Open in Word or LibreOffice for full fidelity.
- Does Unicode work?
- Yes. The parser honours \uN Unicode escapes (with the spec's \uc skip count) and decodes \'XX byte escapes as Windows-1252, which covers nearly all Western RTF files.
- Is my file uploaded?
- No. RTF is parsed entirely in your browser. Nothing leaves your device.
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