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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Windows not having a built in free RTF editor is notable

Yeah, that is a bit odd, but then again when's the last time you've seen something other than a cut-rate eBook in RTF? Everything is either some variant of plain text or a DOC file these days.

Plus, it's rare that you ever need to edit RTF files. Read, sure, but that could be handled by Word Viewer, which is free.

EDIT: Right, they're discontinuing the viewers, but apparently they have a cloud-based online thing that's free? Sucks if you live somewhere with crap internet I guess.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A lot of ebooks seem to be more epub or pdf these days. RTF isn't used quite so much.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

RTF is a rarity these days since basically every phone, tablet, and other handheld device can handle either PDFs or HTML (and ePub is basically just a ZIP file with HTML in a specific naming scheme and structure). Back in the day though you'd find RTFs more often for use in budget/jury-rigged eReader options. It's much easier to parse, if nothing else.