Editing Rich Text Format (section)

===Drawing objects===
The RTF 1.2 specification defined use of drawing objects, known as shapes, such as rectangles, ellipses, lines, arrows and polygons. The RTF 1.5 specification introduced many new control words for drawing objects.<ref name="rtf15" />

However, many RTF implementations, such as [[Apache OpenOffice]], do not support drawing objects<ref>{{cite web |url=https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=3790 |title=Issue 3790&nbsp;– RTF: Import Word 97–2000 RTF for Drawing Objects (Shapes) |work=Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla|publisher=Apache Software Foundation|access-date=2014-10-27}}</ref> (though they are supported in [[LibreOffice]] 4.0 on<ref>{{cite web|url=https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/4.0|title=LibreOffice 4.0 Release Notes|publisher=The Document Foundation|access-date=2014-10-27}}</ref>) or Abiword.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.abisource.com/mailinglists/abiword-user/2006/Mar/0048.html |title=Re: Drawing inside Abiword |date=2006-03-15 |access-date=2011-05-21}}</ref> Applications which do not support RTF drawing objects do not display or save the shapes. Some implementations will also not display any text inside drawing objects.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?t=67774 |title=OOoForum.org&nbsp;– Problem opening RTF file in Writer |access-date=2011-05-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110928093755/http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?t=67774 |archive-date=2011-09-28 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://openoffice.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=113308 |title=OpenOffice.org Bugzilla – Bug 113308&nbsp;– Vertical text in border |access-date=2011-05-19}}</ref>