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RTF to PDF
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Drop RTF file here
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Select fileWhy convert RTF to PDF
RTF renders differently in WordPad, Word and TextEdit, and many mobile apps refuse it. PDF removes the variability and is accepted by every portal.
Tables, lists, embedded images and fonts declared in the RTF are interpreted by a full office engine, which handles the older RTF dialects better than lightweight parsers.
How it works
- Drop RTF file onto the box above, click it to browse, or paste from the clipboard.
- Check the file list; remove anything you added by mistake.
- Press Convert. The file is uploaded securely, converted, and the result is offered for download.
- Download the PDF.
About the formats
RTF · Rich Text Format · .rtf
A 1987 Microsoft interchange format that almost any word processor can read: bold, italics, lists and tables, but no modern layout features.
- RTF is plain text with control codes, so it is safe from macros and easy to repair.
- Images are stored as hexadecimal text, which makes RTF files with pictures very large.
- Windows WordPad and macOS TextEdit both save RTF by default.
PDF · Portable Document Format · .pdf
The fixed-layout document standard: looks the same on every device and printer, which is why forms, invoices, contracts and reports are shared as PDF.
- A PDF can contain vector text, embedded fonts, images, form fields, annotations and digital signatures.
- Scanned PDFs are just pictures of pages; they need OCR before the text can be searched or copied.
- PDF is an open ISO standard (ISO 32000) since 2008.
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