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Originally Posted by Solitaire1
For me, that RTF is a plain text format is a reason to recommend it. One of the things I like about plain text formats like RTF, HTML, and OpenDocument Text (which is a collection of zipped XML files and folders) is that I can open them up and see everything that is in the document.
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Very true. The one area in which it really falls down is image support. Because an RTF file is ASCII, its image storage is breathtakingly huge; each pixel gets encoded as a sequence of ASCII characters. Adding a 100kb JPEG image to an RTF document can literally increase the file size by 5MB. Any document in which you want a dozen or so images just gets completely impractical to store as RTF.