RTF to HTML

RTF still arrives from mail merges, curriculum software, and 'Save as Rich Text' on macOS TextEdit. Opening it as HTML is how you publish or clean it without Word. It is also how you inspect a file that looks like {\rtf1 in Notepad.

A control-word parser skips destinations such as font tables, style sheets, and WMF fallbacks. \par starts paragraphs; \b/\i/\ul/\strike/\sub/\super wrap emphasis; \'hh uses a Windows-1252 map; \uN handles Unicode. PNG/JPEG \pict hex becomes an <img>, and HYPERLINK fields become anchors. The HTML is sanitized like any other hub document.

This is not Word's full RTF dialect. Embedded OLE, DrawingML-in-RTF, and complex tables will be skipped or flattened. If the file was Word's 'Save as RTF', it may be huge and full of ignored groups — the visible text still usually comes through. For a better document, ask for DOCX.

Preview the HTML. If emphasis is missing, the source used a style instead of \b — common in Word-generated RTF. Convert onward to Markdown or DOCX once the text looks right. Do not expect a pixel match to TextEdit's wrap.

Font tables are skipped as a destination so we do not try to load .ttf files from the RTF. The HTML uses the browser default unless you style it later.

PNG and JPEG \pict hex blobs become <img> data URLs. WMF/EMF and OLE objects are skipped so a metafile dump does not explode the HTML. Extract those with Word if they matter.

Accepts

.rtf

Writes

.html · text/html

Read fidelity

medium (RTF → HTML)

Write fidelity

exact (HTML → HTML)

Source size

Plan for files under 7.6 MB

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Other conversions from RTF: MarkdownWordOpenDocumentPDFEPUB

Other ways to get HTML: MarkdownWordOpenDocumentPDFEPUB