Many users working with office applications from Microsoft or analogues from other developers often encounter inconsistencies in document formats. Files with the * .rtf extension cannot be opened by older versions of applications. To avoid such a problem at the wrong time, you need to have a simple way to convert documents.
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Rtf To Txt For Macbook Pro
Rich Text Format (RTF) is not always adequately displayed on the web on different platforms. The simplest solution is to convert RTF to plain text and then transfer it to a txt file or paste it into an email, depending on your needs. In macOS, this can be done easily and simply.
Convert RTF to TXT via TextEdit
RTF is a cross-platform format for storing labeled text documents, created jointly by Microsoft and Adobe, as meta-tags for the format Word in 1982. Adobe has in 1985 continued to develop the format and created a language PostScript. The RTF Specification uses the ANSI, PC-8, Macintosh, and IBM PC character sets. It defines control words and symbols that serve as common denominator formatting commands. When saving a file in the Rich Text Format, the file is processed by an RTF writer that converts the word processor's markup to the RTF.
Here’s how to do this using only the built-in TextEdit application:
- Launch TextEdit;
- Creat a New document;
- Write or fill it with text this document;
- In the “Format” menu, select RTF;
- Click “OK” and Save the file;
- Next open Finder and locate your RTF file;
- Right-click on it and choose “Get Info”;
- Here open tab “Name & Extension”;
- And rename extension prefix from RTF on TXT;
- After that in window choose “Use .txt”;
- Congrats, you have done it!
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Convert RTF to TXT via Terminal
The utility that is pre-installed on every Mac has a textutil module. It supports the following document formats: txt, html, rtf, rtfd, doc, docx, wordml, odt or webarchive. This means that you can easily “overtake” the document in any of the above extensions to another available one. To convert in the Terminal, enter the command:
You can convert the following formats: txt, rtf, rtfd, html, doc, docx, odt, wordml, and webarchive. Here is an example of the syntax for translating a file called test.rtf to txt format:
Textutil will automatically merge the file name with the correct extension. If you want to give a new name to this file, use – output as follows:
Conclusion
As you can see, there are some simple and effective ways. Choose the one that is more convenient for you.
A text (TXT) file contains unformatted text with the file extension .txt (e.g., macreports.txt). By unformatted, it is meant that these type of text files are plain text files without any styling and formatting, for instance, these documents do not have bold texts, italic texts, images, colors, different font types, hyperlinks, tables, bulleted lists etc. These documents just have plain texts. A TXT file can be created, opened and edited on a Mac with a text editor. An example of a text editor is TextEdit, which is included with the macOS software. Here is how you can create a text file:
Open and use TextEdit and create a text file
Rtf To Txt For Macbook
- Open the TextEdit app on your Mac (Applications > TextEdit, or use Spotlight, press Command-Space bar, to search, find and open TextEdit). TextEdit is a text editing and word processing tool that comes with your Mac.
- In the TextEdit app, choose File > Open. TextEdit has two format modes: (a) plain text (.txt file) and (b) rich text (.rtf file). The difference is that .txt mode will not allow formatting, while .rtf mode will let you format like adding images, colors, tables etc.
- Default format is rich text format. You can change this by going to TextEdit > Preferences and select Plain Text.
- You can also change the mode while you editing your text by going to Format > Make Plain Text or Format > Make Rich Text. If you change a .rtf file (rich text) to .txt file (plain text), your document will lose all formatting options.
- Create and edit your text file
- And then go to File > Save to save your text file.
- Name your file and save it.
You can also create more rich documents, you can use Pages, Pages for iCloud or similar apps. One other note is that text files are also known as flat files or ASCII files.
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