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RTF: Formatted Document

A Rich Text Format document exercising bold, italic, underline, colour, headings, and a bullet list: all as plain control words. For testing RTF parsers, text extraction, and RTF→DOCX/PDF conversion.

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Specifications

Format
RTF 1.x
Encoding
ASCII
Features
bold, italic, underline, colour, bullet list
Fonts
Times New Roman, Arial

Testing contract

Expected to pass
Scenario
Exercise RTF: Formatted Document in its rich text workflow. A Rich Text Format document exercising bold, italic, underline, colour, headings, and a bullet list: all as plain control words.
Expected result
16 text lines, decoded as UTF-8; first nonempty line is '{\\rtf1\\ansi\\ansicpg1252\\deff0'. Declared feature checks: features=bold, italic, underline, colour, bullet list; fonts=Times New Roman, Arial.

What is a .rtf file?

RTF (Rich Text Format) is a plain-text-based document format that encodes styling, fonts, and layout using backslash control words. It is human-readable in a text editor and broadly interoperable across word processors. It predates Office Open XML and remains a portable rich-text interchange format.

How to use this file

Use an example RTF to test rich-text parsing, control-word handling, and converters that translate between RTF and DOCX, HTML, or plain text.

How to use this file for testing

“RTF: Formatted Document” is a deterministic Testaroo fixture for Conversion testing. The same content exported across many formats and linked as a group, so you can convert one and diff against the expected twin.

Documented properties for this file: ASCII · RTF 1.x. Compare results against paired or grouped companions on this page when present (clean↔damaged, searchable↔scanned, or format twins) so scores stay reproducible across runs.

Download the file once, keep the path stable in CI or local scripts, and treat the spec table as the contract: dimensions, seeds, field lists, and roles are intentional. Corrupt or invalid samples are labelled as such, expect parsers to fail loudly rather than silently accept them.

Document fixtures list their internal structure (pages, fields, tracked changes, embedded objects) in the spec table. Test extractors, converters, and OCR against that known structure, and compare searchable↔scanned or format-twin companions when present.

Code examples

soffice --headless --convert-to txt formatted.rtf   # LibreOffice
textutil -convert txt formatted.rtf                 # macOS

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