RTF Viewer Online
Drop a Rich Text (.rtf) file to read it as pages: fonts, colors, tables with merged cells, pictures, headers, footers and footnotes. Find, outline, zoom and a dark page, with no Word, no account and no upload.
RTF Viewer & Rich Text Viewer for VS Code and Cursor, free
- Opens .rtf files from Word, WordPad, TextEdit, LibreOffice, R and SAS as a read-only page, with a click in the Explorer.
- Live reload when a tool writes the file again, keeping your place, and Page or Flow view with Auto, Light, Dark and Invert colors.
- Copy all text, export one HTML file with the pictures inside, or open the RTF source as text.
Optional Zovo Pro, USD 19 once: export tables to CSV and compare two RTF files. 3 free tries for each.
Drop an .rtf file here
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Rich Text Format (.rtf) from Word, WordPad, TextEdit, LibreOffice, R and SAS, up to 200 MB.
Open this in VS Code or Cursor
This page runs the parser of the free RTF Viewer extension. In VS Code and Cursor it opens an .rtf file with a click, reloads it when R, SAS or another tool writes it again and keeps your place, exports one HTML file with the pictures inside, and shows the RTF source with Open as Text.
Free, MIT license. About RTF Viewer for VS Code.
Zovo Pro
Export tables to CSV and compare two RTF files. Zovo Pro, USD 19 once.
In the RTF Viewer extension, Zovo Pro exports every table of a file, or of every .rtf file in a folder, as CSV files that line up in Excel, and compares the text of two RTF files side by side in the diff editor, table rows included. It is made for clinical tables (TFLs) from SAS or R. Each Pro tool works 3 times for free. One payment covers the Pro tools in 22 Zovo extensions. Everything that is free stays free.
After a card payment you get a key on the page. With GitHub Sponsors you sign in from the extension. Details on the Zovo Pro page.
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Questions
Is my RTF file uploaded anywhere?
No. The page reads the file inside this tab and turns it into a page with JavaScript, in a background worker. Its Content Security Policy sets connect-src to none, so the page cannot send your document anywhere. Open the Network tab of your browser tools and you will see no request when a file opens.
Which RTF files does it open?
Files from Word, WordPad, TextEdit, LibreOffice, R and SAS, up to 200 MB. It reads code pages and font charsets, Unicode, and Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Cyrillic and Greek text. Tables keep merged cells, borders, shading and header rows, so clinical tables (TFLs) with spanning headers look right.
Are pictures shown?
Yes. PNG, JPEG, BMP, EMF and WMF pictures stored in the file are drawn. Mac PICT and other kinds show as a labelled box, never a blank page. Pictures come only from the bytes inside the file; the page loads nothing else.
Is a file with links or embedded objects safe to open?
Embedded objects (OLE packages) are never opened or extracted; each shows as a box. Links work only for web and mail addresses, and only when you click them. The text of the file is shown as text, never run, and the page allows only its own scripts.
Can I search and read in the dark?
Press Ctrl+F or Cmd+F, or use the Find box, then Enter and Shift+Enter to move between matches. The outline lists the headings. Paper can follow the page theme, or stay light or dark; on dark paper, dark text is lightened so it stays readable.
Does it work offline?
Yes. After the first visit the page keeps a copy of its own files, so it opens RTF files with no connection.
What is free and what is Zovo Pro?
Everything on this page is free, and so is reading RTF in the VS Code extension. Exporting tables to CSV and comparing two RTF files are Zovo Pro in the extension, with 3 free tries each. One USD 19 payment covers the Pro tools in every Zovo extension.