Adobe Form Designer form
File type: Document file
An .xft file is a form created with the legacy Adobe Form Designer application, typically version 5.0 or earlier.
Found 2 different file type records with the same xft filename suffix.
File type category:
Document file
Date updated: October 7, 2026
Record marked as obsolete and not updated for a long time.
The .xft file extension is associated with forms created in Adobe Form Designer 5.0 or earlier. The file contains a form designed for use with that application.
Adobe later replaced Form Designer with Adobe LiveCycle Designer for Microsoft Windows. The .xft format is obsolete, and newer software may not support these legacy forms.
As far as we know, an .xft file can only be used with Adobe Form Designer 5.0 or an earlier version on Microsoft Windows, if the original software is available. Adobe LiveCycle Designer is the successor to Form Designer, but it may not open every legacy .xft file.
If conversion or export is supported, open the .xft file in Adobe Form Designer 5.0 or earlier and use the application's available export options.
Software applications that can open xft files:
Microsoft Windows
Software applications that can edit xft files:
Microsoft Windows
Software capable of saving xft files:
Microsoft Windows
Software applications that handle other tasks involving xft files:
Microsoft Windows
File type category:
Font and typeface file
Date updated: October 7, 2026
Record marked as obsolete and not updated for a long time.
ChiWriter was a scientific word processor for DOS, sold by Horstmann Software Design Corporation between 1986 and 1996. Its printer font files provided character shapes that ChiWriter used when printing.
A ChiWriter .xft file is a software-specific font resource rather than a modern desktop font format. It belongs with the ChiWriter installation and is intended for use with the program's printer support.
The format is obsolete because ChiWriter and the printers it supported are no longer in common use.
Open the file with ChiWriter on its original DOS-compatible system. On a modern computer, ChiWriter may require a suitable DOS environment or emulator, and the file may also require the associated printer configuration to be useful.
Modern font editors and document applications generally cannot open this ChiWriter-specific printer font directly.
There is no widely supported modern conversion route for ChiWriter 24-pin printer fonts. The most reliable way to use the file is to keep it with ChiWriter and print from that program.
If the original documents are being preserved, retain the .xft file with the ChiWriter files and the DOS environment needed to print them. Recreating the font in a modern format would require manually reproducing its glyphs.
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