I received an xxx.rtf file in email that I would like to put
up on my FP2003 web site. It looks like it was generated
with Microsoft word? I'm not sure what an xxx.rtf file is
or whether I can just import it into FrontPage and then
hyperlink to it? The xxx.rtf file contains pictures and
and text as well as color.
Do I need to convert this xxx.rtf file type to something
like pdf before I can add (import) it into my PC based
web?
Any help would be appreciated.

RTF stands for Rich Text Format. Basically, it's a poor-mans word-processing
standard. It allows people to bold text and other visual elements similar to
Word, but is very limited. Almost every PC user can view the files as
WordPad, which is one of those accessories hardly anyone has noticed in
years, works with RTF just fine. RTF was developed by MS in the late 80's
for document exchange between platforms. I believe it can be read by a
number of platforms though with the advent of HTML it hasn't seen much use
as so many apps can read and write HTML easily.

You could convert it to PDF as that would probably look better and seem more
professional anyway, but I'm not sure if it's 100% necessary.


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Hope this helps,
Mark Fitzpatrick
Former Microsoft FrontPage MVP 199?-2006

<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news(E-Mail Removed)...
>I received an xxx.rtf file in email that I would like to put
> up on my FP2003 web site. It looks like it was generated
> with Microsoft word? I'm not sure what an xxx.rtf file is
> or whether I can just import it into FrontPage and then
> hyperlink to it? The xxx.rtf file contains pictures and
> and text as well as color.
> Do I need to convert this xxx.rtf file type to something
> like pdf before I can add (import) it into my PC based
> web?
> Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks Mark,
I really appreciate the rtf description. I'll try it both ways to
see which looks best. Sorry for the dumb question but I don't
think I've ever seen this rtf file type before. It also gives me
'Rich Text Format' to search for rather than '.rtf' or 'rtf' .


On Mon, 5 Feb 2007 00:37:17 -0600, "Mark Fitzpatrick"
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>RTF stands for Rich Text Format. Basically, it's a poor-mans word-processing
>standard. It allows people to bold text and other visual elements similar to
>Word, but is very limited. Almost every PC user can view the files as
>WordPad, which is one of those accessories hardly anyone has noticed in
>years, works with RTF just fine. RTF was developed by MS in the late 80's
>for document exchange between platforms. I believe it can be read by a
>number of platforms though with the advent of HTML it hasn't seen much use
>as so many apps can read and write HTML easily.
>
>You could convert it to PDF as that would probably look better and seem more
>professional anyway, but I'm not sure if it's 100% necessary.