The WPD format and its associated .wpd filename extension is text document file format developed by Satellite Systems International. It was released as the native file format for the company's WordPerfect word processing application. The company and its digital assets were later acquired by Corel in 1996 who have maintained active development of the format and the software application. Though WordPerfect was initially cross platform with support for MS-DOS, Mac, and Windows, by 1997, there was only Microsoft Windows compatibility and support. The format, despite being a text document format, has support for formatted text, simple tables as well as drawn objects.
In its original conception, the .rtf format was a specification for formatting text and graphics principally designed to facilitate the interoperability of documents and text between Microsoft document processing applications. It eliminated the need for specialized translation software required to open documents in different versions of MS-DOS, Windows, and Macintosh. The specification is a proprietary filename format first developed by Microsoft in 1987 to be supported in Microsoft word 3.0 and all versions of Microsoft Office Word thereof. The latest revision, version 1.9.1, was released in 2008 and also marked the end of any further enhancements to the specification by Microsoft. Through unformatted text, control words, control symbols, and groups, a piece of text can be encoded into an .rtf format. All RTF readers then process .rtf formats by separating and acting on control information disparately from the actual text in the document. Though the RTF specification is proprietary asset of Microsoft, several non-Microsoft programs support both reading .rtf documents and creating .rtf. Microsoft Office Suite is still however the most dominant application associated with this specification.
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The WPD format supports several advanced text formatting features in addition to those mentioned in the description including support for graphs, mail merging, indexing, searching, as well as tables such as contents tables. The format is split in blocks with formatting information stored in tags found within one or more blocks in the format. Information embedding is also supported allowing a WPD document to include hyperlinks, templates, databases, and spreadsheets.
Extended ASCII, PC-8, and ANSI are among the original character control sets used in the formatting and text representation of documents saved in the .rtf format. At present the format supports 7-bit ASCII characters. This formally allows the easy transfer of text documents between different computers running different operating systems and applications. RTF requires minimal computer resources and does not support macros. It does however have support for embedding some of the popular graphical format such as JPEG and PNG. Not all applications have support for these embedded graphical format thus .rtf files with unsupported embedded graphical images will open but will not display the graphical images.
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Select RTF as the output format and click Convert. Adjust optional settings if needed.
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