RIF Converter

Extract text from Painter or MikroTik files (RIF)


Drop or upload your .RIF file
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How to extract text from your RIF file

  1. Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your RIF file.
  2. You’ll see a preview, if available.
  3. Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.

Convert RIF to another file type

To convert RIF files to another format, you need Corel Painter or other Raster Image software.

Convert a file to RIF

To convert other file formats to the "Digital Artwork File" file type, you need software like Corel Painter or a similar tool.


About RIF files

A .RIF file is primarily a Raster Image File created by Corel Painter or Rebelle. These files store complex digital paintings, including layers, canvas textures, and proprietary brush stroke metadata like watercolor wetness or thick paint depth. Another common use is the supout.rif support file generated by MikroTik RouterOS for system debugging. The main disadvantage of the image .RIF format is its proprietary nature. It requires an expensive software license to open and is not natively supported by web browsers, standard image viewers, or industry standards like Adobe Photoshop. Files often exceed hundreds of megabytes due to uncompressed layer data and specialized physics metadata. Users typically need to convert .RIF files to PSD to collaborate with Photoshop users, or to PNG and JPG for web publishing and client reviews. However, converting this format is notoriously difficult. Standard online converters fail because the proprietary brush physics, paper grain, and layer blending modes are locked strictly behind Corel's engine. When you convert to standard formats, dynamic wet brush effects are baked in and no longer editable. Often, only the original software can properly read or export the data. If our analysis detects a supported underlying or embedded format, viewing or conversion may still be possible.

Convert.Guru analyzes your RIF file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.

Users also converted RIFF, RTF, TIF, RLF, FIF, RAF, RIS, JFIF, PDF, DOC, JPG, SNAGX and PNG files.


FAQ

If you want to convert RIF file to JPG, PDF, PNG, GIF, BMP, TIFF, TIF, WEBP, ICO, CUR, PSD or PSB, you can use Corel Painter or similar software from the "Digital Painting Raster Storage" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….

To convert RAW, PNG, AI, NEF, PSB, DNG, SVG, GIF, EPS, JPG, ARW or PDF files to RIF, try Corel Painter or another comparable tool in the "Digital Painting Raster Storage" category.



The RIF Converter Story

The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our RIF converter.