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Situation. TEXTILE is a document format oriented around a particular office suite or publishing pipeline. Solution: a ADOC, produced below. A TEXTILE to ADOC job turns one office document into another without retyping anything. Styles, pagination and embedded content cross the bridge cleanly because we use the same engine that powers professional document pipelines. Upload a TEXTILE file above, adjust any Advanced options, and download a ready-to-use ADOC. Keep in mind TEXTILE is a document format oriented around a particular office suite or publishing pipeline. And remember that ADOC is a document format oriented around a particular office suite or publishing pipeline.
Textile Markup
Source formatTextile is a lightweight markup language that generates HTML from a human-readable syntax. It was popularized by the Textpattern CMS and the Redmine project management tool, offering a cleaner writing experience than raw HTML.
AsciiDoc
Target formatAsciiDoc is a human-readable markup language designed for writing technical documentation, articles, and books. It supports rich formatting including tables, admonitions, cross-references, and can be converted to HTML, PDF, EPUB, and DocBook.
Why convert TEXTILE to ADOC
Opening TEXTILE in the tool that natively reads ADOC is rarely clean. Converting upstream rebuilds the document in the target format so headings become headings, lists stay lists, and the receiving tool does not flag layout warnings.
HOW TO CONVERT
TEXTILE → ADOC
Drop the TEXTILE file
Upload your document — or a ZIP of several documents for batch conversion — through the web form.
Convert through pandoc
Our pandoc-based pipeline opens the TEXTILE, preserves structure and typography, and writes the ADOC.
Retrieve the document
Click the download button; the ADOC is delivered as a single file (or ZIP of files for batch jobs).
Common Use Cases
Share across platforms
Send ADOC files to anyone without worrying about whether they have the right software for TEXTILE.
Embed in documents
Drop ADOC output into Word, Google Docs, PowerPoint, Notion or a website without conversion warnings.
Optimize size
ADOC often produces smaller files than TEXTILE for web, email and storage.
Archive & future-proof
Store in a widely-supported format that will still open on future operating systems without legacy plugins.
TEXTILE vs ADOC — Strengths and limitations
What each format does best, and where it falls short.
TEXTILE Strengths
- More expressive than Markdown in classical usage (tables, footnotes, classes).
- Mature implementation in RedCloth (Ruby), php-textile, js-textile.
- Core format of Redmine — millions of daily users.
- Clean human-readable syntax.
Limitations
- Market share decimated by Markdown since the mid-2000s.
- Not as widely supported outside the Ruby/Rails ecosystem.
- No CommonMark-style spec — implementations differ on edge cases.
ADOC Strengths
- Expressiveness of DocBook in plain text.
- Cross-references, tables, bibliographies, math, and metadata native.
- Multi-output: HTML, PDF, EPUB, man pages, DocBook XML.
- Faster parsing than LaTeX, richer than Markdown.
- Eclipse Foundation stewardship.
Limitations
- Steeper learning curve than Markdown.
- Smaller ecosystem than Markdown despite being more capable.
- Most CI tools default to Markdown, not AsciiDoc.
TEXTILE vs ADOC — Technical specifications
Side-by-side comparison of the technical details.
TEXTILE
- MIME type
- text/x-textile
- Extensions
- .textile
- Implementations
- RedCloth (Ruby), php-textile, js-textile
- Primary users
- Redmine, Textpattern, early Rails
- Encoding
- UTF-8
ADOC
- MIME type
- text/asciidoc
- Extensions
- .adoc, .asciidoc, .asc
- Processors
- AsciiDoc (Python), Asciidoctor (Ruby)
- Stewardship
- Eclipse AsciiDoc Working Group
- Output targets
- HTML, PDF, EPUB, DocBook, man page
| Specification | TEXTILE | ADOC |
|---|---|---|
| MIME type | text/x-textile | text/asciidoc |
| Extensions | .textile | .adoc, .asciidoc, .asc |
| Implementations | RedCloth (Ruby), php-textile, js-textile | — |
| Primary users | Redmine, Textpattern, early Rails | — |
| Encoding | UTF-8 | — |
| Processors | — | AsciiDoc (Python), Asciidoctor (Ruby) |
| Stewardship | — | Eclipse AsciiDoc Working Group |
| Output targets | — | HTML, PDF, EPUB, DocBook, man page |
TEXTILE vs ADOC — Typical file sizes
Approximate file sizes for common scenarios.
TEXTILE
- Blog post 3-30 KB
- Redmine wiki page 5-50 KB
ADOC
- Short technical article 2-20 KB
- Book chapter 20-150 KB
- Full book source 500 KB - 5 MB
Quality & Compatibility
Headings, paragraphs, lists, tables, hyperlinks and inline images all survive the conversion with their semantic structure intact. Rare features unique to TEXTILE — legacy macros, form fields, obscure frame styles — are flattened to static content where no direct ADOC equivalent exists. Tracked changes, where both formats support them, transfer cleanly.
Tips for Best Results
- Round-tripping between TEXTILE and ADOC (converting back and forth) can accumulate small formatting drift — do one conversion and stay in that format.
- If the TEXTILE has tracked changes, accept or reject them before converting to avoid surprises in the ADOC output.
- Very long documents split cleanly at existing section breaks; add section breaks deliberately if you need precise page boundaries.
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes, as long as the fonts are standard (system fonts or common office fonts like Arial, Calibri, Times, Helvetica). Custom corporate fonts survive if they are embedded in the source document; otherwise the conversion substitutes the closest available match, which can shift line breaks by a character or two.
Yes. Inline images are embedded into the ADOC at full resolution, editable tables become native ADOC tables, and hyperlinks keep their URLs. Complex features unique to TEXTILE — macros, form fields, track-changes — are mapped where an equivalent exists in ADOC and flattened into static content otherwise.
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