Envoy (WordPerfect)

Envoy
Filename extension	`.evy`
Internet media type	`application/x-envoy`
Developed by	Tumbleweed Communications Corporation
Initial release	1993
Type of format	Document file format

In computing, Envoy was a proprietary portable document file format marketed by WordPerfect Corporation, created as a competitor for Acrobat Pro. It was introduced by Tumbleweed Communications Corporation in 1993 and shipped with WordPerfect Office in March 1994.

An Envoy file could be created by the use of a special printer driver in WordPerfect. The resulting document could be viewed in a separate viewer application, the Envoy Distributable Viewer, which also worked as a web browser plugin.

Unlike Adobe PDF, the file format was not publicly documented.

Envoy failed to make any headway against PDF, and is largely now unused. Some have reported success in reading Envoy documents by printing to PostScript from the Envoy Distributable Viewer, then converting the PostScript file to a PDF.^[1] The PostScript file can also be viewed directly using a viewer such as GhostScript.

References

↑ Remember Envoy?, by Robin Springall, 02-17-2005, Desktop Publishing Forum

External links

Download for Envoy Reader for Windows 95

Multi-purpose office document file formats

Editable document formats	Compound Document Format Microsoft Office XML formats Office Open XML Open Document Architecture OpenDoc OpenDocument OpenOffice.org XML Revisable-Form Text Rich Text Format Uniform Office Format Word Document

Fixed document formats	DjVu Envoy Open XML Paper Specification Portable Document Format

Related topics	Character encoding ASCII Unicode TeX

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