OK. I've tried saving and loading XML files produced by the RichTextCtrl demo on Linux, and everything worked without a hitch.

I'm running Linux Mint 5.0 (derived from Ubuntu 8.04), wxPython...

That's strange. I've successfully done it on Windows and I thought it should work on Linux too.

Anyway, I'm going to try it on Linux shortly, and will report back about what I've found out.

Max, you *can* load and save RTF files using wxRichTextCtrl, but they will be stored as XML files. Just fire up the wxPython demo, go to the wxRichTextCtrl specific demo, launch it, go to the File...