AW to MTV Converter

Free AW to MTV conversion — MTV raytracer image format

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Niche Format Support

MTV serves specific legacy raytracing workflows. Convert AW pages when your tools require this exact format.

Server-Side Engine

Conversion runs on remote infrastructure. Your local device stays free during the entire process.

Automatic Cleanup

AW files are deleted after processing. MTV output is purged from servers within 24 hours.

How to convert AW to MTV

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Select files from Computer, Google Drive, Dropbox, URL or by dragging it on the page.

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Choose mtv or any other format you need as a result (more than 200 formats supported)

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Let the file convert and you can download your mtv file right afterwards

About formats

AW is the document format of Applix Words, the word processor component of the Applix office suite (later renamed Anyware Office) developed by Applix, Inc. for Unix and Linux workstations. The suite targeted enterprise Unix environments during the 1990s, providing word processing, spreadsheet, graphics, and presentation capabilities on platforms like Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, and Linux where Microsoft Office was unavailable. AW files store formatted text documents with support for character and paragraph styling, page layout, tables, headers and footers, and embedded graphics. The format uses a proprietary binary structure optimized for the Applix application's internal document model. Applix Words gained particular visibility in the Linux community during the late 1990s when it was bundled with several commercial Linux distributions as their default word processor before OpenOffice.org became widely available. One advantage was native Unix platform support — Applix provided professional word processing capabilities on Unix workstations at a time when few commercial alternatives existed. The format's tight integration with other Applix suite components enabled cross-referencing between word processing documents, spreadsheets, and presentations. Applix was acquired by Cognos in 2003, and the office suite was discontinued. AW files are primarily encountered today in archived documents from Unix enterprise environments of the 1990s and early 2000s.
Developer: Applix, Inc.
Initial release: 1992
MTV is a simple raster image format created by Mark T. VandeWettering for the MTV Ray Tracer, a ray tracing program released in 1988 as one of the early publicly available ray tracers distributed through Usenet. The format stores 24-bit RGB images with a minimal text header followed by raw pixel data. The header consists of a single line containing the image width and height as ASCII integers, followed immediately by the pixel data where each pixel occupies three bytes (red, green, blue) arranged in row-major order from top-left to bottom-right. The MTV Ray Tracer itself was significant in the history of computer graphics — distributed freely via the comp.graphics Usenet newsgroup, it introduced many programmers and students to the principles of ray tracing: ray-object intersection, reflection, refraction, shadows, and recursive shading. The MTV format was the program's native output, and its simplicity made it easy for users to write custom viewers and converters on whatever platform they had access to — a practical necessity in the fragmented Unix workstation landscape of the late 1980s. One advantage is extreme implementation simplicity: the format can be read in a handful of lines of code in any programming language, with no libraries, no compression algorithms, and no metadata parsing required — just read two integers and then read width x height x 3 bytes of pixel data. The format's historical significance in the computer graphics community provides another dimension — MTV files from early ray tracing experiments represent primary artifacts from the era when ray tracing transitioned from academic research to accessible software. MTV files are supported by ImageMagick and various legacy graphics tools.
Initial release: 1988

Frequently Asked Questions

Why convert AW to MTV?

MTV is a legacy raytracer image format required by certain 3D rendering pipelines. Converting AW pages to MTV creates images compatible with those tools.

How do I open MTV files after conversion?

ImageMagick, legacy raytracing software, and command-line image tools that support the MTV raster specification can open and process MTV files.

Will my AW document layout be preserved?

The converter renders AW pages as raster images in MTV format. Text positioning and visual layout are captured accurately in the output.

Is AW to MTV conversion free?

Yes — converting AW to MTV is free for standard use on convertio.tools. Premium plans offer higher throughput and priority server processing.

Can I upload multiple AW files for batch conversion?

Batch upload is supported — drop several AW files at once and each will be independently converted to MTV for individual download.

What happens to my files after conversion?

AW uploads are deleted from servers as soon as conversion finishes. MTV output files are automatically removed within 24 hours for privacy.