Rich Text Format is a file format developed by Microsoft that allows you to define text files with formatting, font information, text color, etc.
The RTF renderer will read the text from a control source, which might be a Field, Literal, Script or URL. This means RTF text can be read from your datasource, or from a file on disk.
For RTF elements with coloured backgrounds, OpenOffice 2.x will not be able to display the background colour as it is not supported.
When the RTF renderer read the text from the Script it should be Double Slash \
Example :
"{\rtf1\ansi\ansicpg1252\deff0\deflang1033{\fonttbl{\f0\fswiss\fcharset0 Arial;}}\viewkind4\uc1\pard\ql\f0\fs28 \b " + Company + “\b0 .\par}”
When the RTF renderer read the text from the Field it should be Single Slash \
Example :
{\rtf1\ansi\ansicpg1252\deff0\deflang1033{\fonttbl{\f0\fswiss\fcharset0 Arial;}}\viewkind4\uc1\pard\ql\f0\fs28 \b Elixir \b0 .\par}
Note: The Script must be in a single line or must be broken into concatenated strings "like " + “this”.
RTF is the preferred way to obtain attributed text, where the font, colour, alignment, even line-spacing can vary within a block of text.
For more information on Rich Text Format (RTF) please refer to the link below :
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/aa140277(v=office.10).aspx
Note: Elixir Report only support text subset of RTF.
Features like tabs and bulleting are not supported.