Robert Polubinski, Editor / Informer Technologies, Inc. / November 07, 2012
RTF files can be created by the most word processors available at the moment. The following programs, which are text processors, will be able to create or modify RTF documents. Other supported formats include TXT, DOC, DOCX or HTML.
These programs can help you with what you're intending to do:
RTF Editor Software is basic text editor that allows you to create, modify, print, search/replace, and format RTF files. With this application you can create text documents with embedded images (.bmp, .jpg, .png), background color, and rich-text formatting. It also offers the possibility of saving RTF files into other document formats.
Sun has developed a software for those in need of something similar to Microsoft Office. With this software you can have the same tools as in Microsoft Office, Writer, Cal, Draw, etc but in a freeware version. It is easy to use and install and you can also open extensions such as .doc, .xl, etc.
Microsoft Word, one of the most widely used text processors, has been totally revamped. It now offers a new, intuitive interface aimed to streamline your work flow. Also, many of the features that were dispersed in several menus, now are under the Office button.
AbiWord is a useful word processor similar to MS word, but is rather a cross platform supported application. A good aspect of this software is its interoperability and wide range of platform supported such as MAC OS X, all windows platforms, QNX Neutrino 6.2 meaning almost every other operating system.
Jarte is a word processing tool that you can use for document editing. As it is based on the word processing tool included by Microsoft Wordpad, the application offers a group of functions that allows you to create complex written documents. The main screen of the application displays a toolbar, which conveniently includes all of the program's main functions.
CWordPad is a basic word processor. It is an enhanced version of WordPad. It supports Rich Text Format and Plain Text Format. It has a basic spell checker and thesaurus but to work you have to add a dictionary manually. Files can be saved in Win Word 6.0, RTF (Rich Text Format), txt document, and MS-DOS text format.
Delphad is a RTF/Text editor with embeded picture viewer as well as sound player. You can open almost any file to view or edit. Delphad even can import Word documents.
The SoftMaker Office 2012 suite stands as a cheaper alternative to other office suites like Microsoft Office, OpenOffice or IBM Lotus Symphony. The program is able to open word documents, presentations or spreadsheets and it is recommended for both business and personal use.
White Label Office is the newest version of the OpenOffice 3.3 office suite. It contains a word processor (Writer), a spreadsheet program (Calc), a program to create presentations (Impress), a drawing program (Draw), a database program (Base) and a program that can process formulas (Math).
LibreOffice is a handy package that comes with 6 easy-to-use applications for you to use at your office or at home. You will find this suite very useful due to the fact that with the help provided by its powerful utilities you can easily write/edit texts, build diagrams and multimedia presentations, display mathematical equations or you can create a database file.