RTF vs RVF

Jenns · Post by **Jenns** » Wed Feb 04, 2009 10:51 am

Hi,

what are the main differences between RTF and RVF?

I'd prefere using RTF, but I'm not sure what I'll miss then.

Thanks, Jenns

Post by **Sergey Tkachenko** » Thu Feb 05, 2009 2:39 pm

Use RTF if you need this file to be read by another applications. The most of TRichView document features can be saved in RTF, but not all (for example, RTF does not support background table images, Delphi controls and some image formats, including animation). RTF files are usually large.

RVF is more useful in internal format, because it is smaller, saved and loaded faster, and can contain all document features supported by TRichView.

Usually, the best scheme is using RVF to store data internally, and implementing RTF import and export.