Cannot show RTF image in Pages and Safari for iOS

Does Pages and Safari for iOS support RTF image?

Posted on Feb 25, 2020 7:41 PM

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Feb 27, 2020 5:44 AM in response to azeusvlis

There are two categories of RTF documents:

  1. RTF without images
  2. RTF with images
    1. RTFD, created by Apple applications as a package folder (.rtfd) containing the separate image(s) and RTF content.
    2. RTF created by non-Apple applications (e.g. LibreOffice Writer 6.4.0, etc.) as a flat file containing image(s) and text


Apple Pages v8.2.1 on the Mac can open all of these, but the 2.2 category of documents are opened showing only the text content. These 2.2 category documents will appear in Quick Look as a black window with white text and no image, even if the image is .png in the document. They also cannot be opened and shown by Preview at all.


Based on the above, no version of Pages on Mac, iOS, or iCloud will display images in any RTF document that is not in a proper RTFD package folder document that these applications were designed to process (with images).


In the Finder, you can control-click on that RTF document with images, and if there is no Show Package Contents menu item, it is not a document that will reveal images when opened by any Pages application.


Safari can open and display images, or web content, including .svg content — but is not designed to open word processing documents (e.g. RTF) with images in them. These are simply unselectable with Safari 13.0.5 on macOS.

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Cannot show RTF image in Pages and Safari for iOS

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