RTF — Formatted Document
A Rich Text Format document exercising bold, italic, underline, colour, headings, and a bullet list — all as plain control words. For testing RTF parsers, text extraction, and RTF→DOCX/PDF conversion.
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Specifications
- Format
- RTF 1.x
- Encoding
- ASCII
- Features
- bold, italic, underline, colour, bullet list
- Fonts
- Times New Roman, Arial
What is a .rtf file?
RTF (Rich Text Format) is a plain-text-based document format that encodes styling, fonts, and layout using backslash control words. It is human-readable in a text editor and broadly interoperable across word processors. It predates Office Open XML and remains a portable rich-text interchange format.
How to use this file
Use an example RTF to test rich-text parsing, control-word handling, and converters that translate between RTF and DOCX, HTML, or plain text.
Related files
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- docxDOCX with CommentsA Word document with two anchored reviewer comments — for testing comment extraction and whether converters preserve or drop review annotations.
- docxDOCX with Tracked ChangesA Word document with real tracked changes — insertions and deletions attributed to two reviewers with timestamps — for testing how tools read, accept, reject, or preserve revisions.
- docxFormatted DOCXA Word document with styled headings, bold/italic runs, a table, and an embedded image — for testing DOCX parsers and converters against a rich document.
- xlsxMulti-Sheet XLSX with FormulasA two-sheet workbook where a Summary sheet references a Data sheet with SUM and arithmetic formulas — for testing spreadsheet parsers, formula evaluation, and converters.
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