SXW to RTF

Convert SXW files to RTF online.

SXW is a text file format. From the very beginning, it was created for StarOffice Writer, that is, an application that processes texts from the Sun Microsystem StarOffice office suite. StarOffice was developed by Sun Microsystems. Then it was bought by Oracle. That's why Star Office has evolved into Apache Open Office, and is now a commercial Oracle product. At the same time, it is the same software product as the free program OpenOffice.org. The only difference is that the new Open Office provides technical support for packages. The Apache Software Foundation supports the Apache OpenOffice software package, and it provides a universal set of tools designed to work with vector drawings, spreadsheets, text documents, databases, etc. The .sxw file is an OpenOffice text document that is saved in XML-based Sun XML Writer (SXW) format. Currently, the SXW format and other OpenOffice formats that are outdated have skipped ahead of the family of standard OpenDocument Format (ODF) formats with .odt extensions without preserving compatibility between them. SXW files are opened by programs such as StarOffice Writer and OpenOffice.org Writer.

RTF is one of the most common text formats that has a long history. After all, it was developed back in 1982 at Microsoft. The name of the format is an abbreviation of the English Rich Text Format File. Compared to DOC, this is a more universal format that can be used by almost any, even the simplest, text editors. Another of its features is the ability to transfer text between different programs, if the operating system provides the function of export / import of RTF files. Users also appreciate RTF for the fact that such a document can only contain text, without additional heavy macros.