Envoy (WordPerfect)
| 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 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.
The file extension was .EVY and the MIME type was application/x-envoy.
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]
References
- WordPerfect's paperless future (Dan Littman, Macworld, July 1994)
- Company History (Tumbleweed Communications Corporation)
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