The Rich Text Format (often abbreviated to RTF) is a proprietarydocument file format developed by Microsoft in 1987 for cross-platform document interchange. Most word processors are able to read and write RTF documents. It should not be confused with enriched text (mimetype "text/enriched" of RFC 1896) or its predecessor Rich Text (mimetype "text/richtext" of RFC 1341 and ) which are completely different specifications.
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