Sample RTF files
Free RTF test files from 5 KB to 1 GB. Pick a size and download, or type any size you need.
5 KB RTF
69 formatted lines
10 KB RTF
138 formatted lines
100 KB RTF
1,399 formatted lines
500 KB RTF
6,997 formatted lines
1 MB RTF
13,993 formatted lines
5 MB RTF
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10 MB RTF
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25 MB RTF
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50 MB RTF
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100 MB RTF
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500 MB RTF
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1 GB RTF
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What is inside
- A large bold title, Sample RTF File, in Calibri
- One line per employee: 138 in the 10 KB file, 13,993 in the 1 MB file, 349,611 in the 25 MB file
- Each line has a bold name, an italic role, and a city in red
- Accented letters and the em dash written as \u Unicode escapes
- Exact to the byte, using an ignorable {\* } group that readers skip
Try it with these tools
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- RTF to PDF Convert Rich Text Format into a PDF.
- RTF to Word Convert RTF into an editable .docx.
- RTF to HTML Turn Rich Text Format into a web page.
- RTF to Text Strip RTF control codes down to plain text.
- RTF to Markdown Convert RTF into Markdown.
- Word & Character Counter Live word, character, sentence and reading-time counts.
About RTF files
RTF, the Rich Text Format, is a text-based document format from Microsoft. Formatting is written as control words starting with a backslash, such as \b for bold and \par for a new paragraph, and braces group text together. You can open an RTF in a plain editor and read it.
Almost every word processor opens RTF: Word, LibreOffice, WordPad and TextEdit among them. That makes it a common choice for exporting documents from older software, legal and medical systems, and anything that needs formatted text without the complexity of .docx.
Non-English characters are where RTF files most often go wrong. They are stored as escape codes such as \u252? for ü, and a reader that ignores those shows question marks instead. If accents vanish after conversion, check how the tool handles \u codes.
Sources: Rich Text Format family (Library of Congress)
Questions
What is the long run of x characters near the end of the file?
Padding to reach the exact size. It sits inside a group that starts with \*, which the RTF spec tells readers to skip when they do not know it, so nothing shows on the page.
Why does the 25 MB RTF take a while to open?
It holds about 350,000 formatted lines, which is thousands of pages. Word processors lay out the whole document, so a slow first open is normal and is exactly what the large file is for.
Can I use these RTF files for free, including at work?
Yes. The site's own script made them from invented records, and they are public domain (CC0), so personal and commercial use are both fine.
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For developers: exact bytes and SHA-256
Sizes are decimal (1 MB = 1,000,000 bytes). The hosted files never change between builds, so these checksums stay valid.
| File | Bytes | SHA-256 |
|---|---|---|
| sample-5kb.rtf | 5,000 bytes | 3c174df02fa2b750ae268133a95cd1627cb008e363edc71bf6d3ede1c755cdf0 |
| sample-10kb.rtf | 10,000 bytes | ee62ef027dd26575c5c255b75a7b672093ecb770b40e4c4ae7ec4d97dad5e8bd |
| sample-100kb.rtf | 100,000 bytes | 97a244fd7e4a74f34d50f0464c6742c1747429e62202faa22efa6443471396ce |
| sample-500kb.rtf | 500,000 bytes | 8ce2bf9e57b2b30f3f075cdd6fa91e8431de5a3f5b764e07c613447fed59f1a7 |
| sample-1mb.rtf | 1,000,000 bytes | 90b63e2b67428634cca43d7e4c6f7ebfa674d9a8f5ad8258107f639bcfb1ecba |