5 MB RTF sample
An RTF file of exactly 5,242,880 bytes. It is a valid Rich Text Format file, generated by this site. Compare its checksum and test it with the parser used by your application. Use it wherever you need a 5 MB sample, test or dummy RTF file.
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sample-rtf-5mb.rtf
5 MB5,242,880 bytes
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- Type
- application/rtf
- SHA-256
de46e9b0df540df9f268ba3cfdb3015e75d8387668760486a8dbe371654a8023- Delivery
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What is in this file
A Rich Text Format document with a title and 14,652 sections of bold headings and body text in Helvetica. An ignorable destination group ({\*\fixturepad}), which word processors skip, brings the file to the exact size.
| Sections | 14,652 |
|---|---|
| Character set | ANSI, code page 1252 |
| Fonts | Helvetica |
| Images | None |
| Encoding | UTF-8 (ASCII characters only) |
How the file begins
The opening lines of sample-rtf-5mb.rtf, exactly as they appear in the file.
00000000 7b 5c 72 74 66 31 5c 61 6e 73 69 5c 61 6e 73 69 |{\rtf1\ansi\ansi|
00000010 63 70 67 31 32 35 32 5c 64 65 66 66 30 7b 5c 66 |cpg1252\deff0{\f|
00000020 6f 6e 74 74 62 6c 7b 5c 66 30 5c 66 73 77 69 73 |onttbl{\f0\fswis|
00000030 73 20 48 65 6c 76 65 74 69 63 61 3b 7d 7d 5c 66 |s Helvetica;}}\f|Preview
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Where 5 MB matters
A 5,242,880-byte file: the size of a phone photo and the minimum part size for S3 multipart uploads. These are the default limits a file of this size is useful for testing:
| System | Limit | Note |
|---|---|---|
| PHP | 2 MB per uploaded file by default (upload_max_filesize) | A 5 MB upload fails on an untuned PHP installation. |
| Vercel Functions | 4.5 MB request body | Larger uploads must go directly to object storage. |
| Amazon S3 multipart upload | 5 MiB minimum part size | This file is exactly one minimum part. |
| AWS Lambda | 6 MB synchronous invocation payload | 5 MB of binary data exceeds it once base64-encoded. |
| Browser localStorage | About 5 MB per origin | Storing this file as text fills the quota. |
| Django | 2.5 MB in memory by default | Larger uploads are streamed to a temporary file instead of held in memory. |
Use this file for
- Finding the first upload limit in a new stack
- Verifying upload filters that allow or block RTF
- Testing legacy document import
Testing notes for RTF
- Two MIME types are in use, application/rtf and text/rtf, and allow-lists should recognise both.
- RTF readers must skip groups they do not understand; a parser that fails on unknown control words is not conformant.
Technical details
| File name | sample-rtf-5mb.rtf |
|---|---|
| Format | RTF (Rich Text Format) |
| Extension | .rtf |
| MIME type | application/rtf |
| Size | 5,242,880 bytes (5 MB) |
| Kind | Text |
| Signature | 7B 5C 72 74 66 31 |
| SHA-256 | de46e9b0df540df9f268ba3cfdb3015e75d8387668760486a8dbe371654a8023 |
| Created | 2026-10-23 |
| Validation | See the listed size and SHA-256. Small downloads are checked in the browser; verify streamed downloads manually. A hash match does not prove parser compatibility. |
| Preview | Available on this page |
| Source | Generated in your browser by this site's generator; not copied from elsewhere |
| Licence | Free to use, modify and redistribute (terms) |
| Category | Documents |
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Questions about this file
- Is this file exactly 5 MB?
- Yes. It is 5,242,880 bytes, which is 5 MB in the binary units that operating systems and server limits use (1 KB = 1,024 bytes).
- What is inside the 5 MB RTF file?
- A Rich Text Format document with a title and 14,652 sections of bold headings and body text in Helvetica. An ignorable destination group ({\*\fixturepad}), which word processors skip, brings the file to the exact size.
- Do the RTF samples contain embedded objects?
- No. They contain only formatted text: bold headings and paragraphs in a single font.