In the early days of Windows, Microsoft created a format called Rich Text Format so Word files can be opened on any platform. It was and is still supported by a lot of editors, which allow them to ...

If you use any applications with Cocoa-based text editors (TextEdit, Mail.app, and many more), you may have noticed that some of them, like Mail.app, recognize URLs and automatically turn them into ...

RTF is short for Rich Text Format, a format created by Microsoft to allow documents to be read across different operating systems. This is useful if your business clients use a variety of operating ...

Poor little TextEdit! Despite having a rich history—starting life as Edit in the Next’s NextStep operating system before becoming a feature in Mac OS X—the app gets little regard. But it deserves our ...

You may need to identify the image format in a Rich Text Format file to help update your business communications. Common image files include raster graphics such as Graphics Interchange Format (GIF), ...

When you convert a file to the ePub format you don’t lose its links, images, or movies. When you want to read your documents on the go, it’s awfully convenient to do so in the iOS iBooks app. To get a ...

Here’s a little something that might get you formatted-text nerds excited: Rich Notes, yet another new text-editing app, lets you write on the iPad in rich text. That is, you can italicize and ...