Open RTF files in your browser
Formatted text written as plain text with codes, which every word processor has read and written since the 1980s. Open one right here as pages. Nothing leaves your device.
Or drop it anywhere on this page
What you'll see
Your document opens as its pages, with its fonts, pictures and tables.
- Every page • Headers, footers, notes and charts
- Final, Markup or Original • Comments and changes
- Reflow • The text fitted to your screen
- Export • Save as PDF, PNG, JPEG or Markdown
About RTF
RTF writes a document as text: words between codes like \b for bold and \par for a new paragraph, with fonts and colors in tables at the top and pictures as long runs of hex. Microsoft made it in 1987 so Word documents could move between programs, and kept it up until version 1.9.1 in 2008.
WordPad, TextEdit and almost every word processor open and save RTF, so it's how apps hand formatted text to each other: exported notes, legal and medical records, old help files. Opened in a text editor, it's a wall of backslashes.
Filepeek reads the codes and lays the document out as pages, with its fonts, colors, lists, tables, pictures, headers and footers, notes and comments. WMF and EMF pictures, common in RTF, are drawn too.
Rich Text Format
.rtf
Format
- MIME type
- application/rtf
- Made by
- Microsoft
- Released
- 1987
Inside the file
- Text
- Paragraphs, fonts, colors and lists
- Tables
- Rows of cells, with their borders
- Pictures
- PNG, JPEG, WMF and EMF, as hex
- Encoding
- ASCII, with code pages and Unicode escapes
Opens in every browser
Browsers download an RTF file, or show its codes as plain text. Filepeek opens it as pages in Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari.
- YouChromeOpens through Filepeek
- YouEdgeOpens through Filepeek
- YouFirefoxOpens through Filepeek
- YouSafariOpens through Filepeek
Questions
How do I open an RTF file?
Drop it on this page or choose Peek an RTF. It opens at once as pages fitted to your window.
Why does my RTF look like code in some apps?
RTF is text with formatting codes, and an app that doesn't read them shows the codes. Filepeek reads them and shows the document they describe.
Does it show pictures?
Yes, the pictures the RTF holds, WMF and EMF drawings included. Pictures it only links to aren't loaded.
Is my file uploaded?
No. The document opens inside your browser and never leaves your device.