Document Viewing Done Right

Snowbound Software is known for outstanding format support. For more than 14 years we have led the industry in document and image viewing and conversion.

 RTF Conversion and Viewer


Snowbound Software offers a variety of solutions that support viewing and conversion for the Rich Text File Format (RTF).

RTF Viewing and Conversion


  • Our RasterMaster Imaging and Conversion SDK allows you to build viewing, conversion and over 140 other expert imaging functions securely into your custom applications to support RTF files.

  • Our powerful VirtualViewer document and image web viewers enable you to view, convert, manipulate, annotate, and print RTF files through a standard Web browser. With VirtualViewer you have the ability to view multiple document and image formats, including RTF, through a universal viewer.

  • SnowBatch, our batch conversion application, provides you the capability to perform rapid batch conversion right from your desktop or server.  The easy-to-use interface will enable you to quickly convert all your RTF files to formats suitable for viewing or storage including RTF to TIFF and RTF to PDF.
    RTF is available for all our Windows, .NET, and Java solutions.

What Is RTF?


The Rich Text Format (often abbreviated RTF) was developed by Microsoft in 1987 for cross-platform document exchange. RTF enables users to exchange text and graphics files easily, regardless of the type of back-end applications used. Most word processors are able to read and write RTF documents. For example, you can create a file using Microsoft Word in Windows 98, save it as an RTF file and send it to someone who uses WordPerfect 6.0 on Windows 3.1 and they will be able to open the file and read it.

Important: As we all know document and image specifications are intentionally loosely written and rarely updated. As a result many applications create documents “incorrectly” and they do not adhere to the latest specifications.
In order to maintain the highest ethical standards and help provide customers with the most positive user experience, Snowbound Software recommends that, as part of your purchase process, you test your own sample documents against our products.  Snowbound, unlike most competitors, develops its own technology. If in the rare case you come across a problem or non-conforming document or image, we can often fix it.