What are the advantages of the rtf-format?

The application MS Office is known almost to all computer users, if not all over the world, then in our country for sure. Such popularity is largely due to the growing needs of the modern world in the creation and exchange of information. In any modern state institution, thousands of documents are created and sent daily, and therefore there is a persistent need for programs that could standardize and simplify this process.

However, in this regard, the rtf-format is much more interesting, which in most cases can be positioned as a universal means of information transfer. By the way, why is he so good? Why not use doc?

The fact is that rtf-format is openly supported by almost all operating systems, and can also be read by the simplest text editors. To use it, there is no need to install complex, heavy and expensive office packages. Most of the applications for working with text data support saving in this standard.

But not even for this rtf-format is so loved by users. Unlike the above doc, as well as docx, odt and other similar files, it can contain only text. Inexperienced users can decide that there is nothing else in all the above types of text documents, but this is not so. The fact is that in the same doc favorite by our domestic users the office format can be macros. In fact, these are the most real programs that can be used by intruders for far from good purposes.

They account for a large part of the infections that occur when the text documents downloaded from the Internet are launched. Using the same rtf-format, you actually do not risk anything. But he also has certain shortcomings, which also need to be taken into account while doing his job. For example, to convert rtf-format to txt, you still have to use some office application. But this is not a particular problem.

For example, this format can not be used to create dynamically linked documents. The introduction of objects into the document-receiver leads to a significant increase in the size of the latter. In this connection, sometimes a method is used, in which only the connection with the source is established. However, although the object is displayed in the receiver document, it is not stored in it, since there is only a link to the source file or object inside the document. So do not insert especially large pictures into the rtf-format.

In addition, he also has some problems with formatting. So, do not try to save an important document or diploma in the rtf format. Than to open it, you will find always, here nobody guarantees guarantees of preservation of an initial type of your creation. In addition, there is almost no backward compatibility. Simply put, if you saved the work in the old version of the program, then in the new application it almost certainly will not open.

It's not worth to hope for OpenSource products, because at the moment Microsoft (namely this company is the creator of the format), laid out in open access only primary versions of rtf.