RecAPIPlus provides complex accurate layout retention outputs with several file formats such as RTF, DOC, WordML, XLS, WP. The IG_REC_output_document_write function exports the given document into the previously mentioned output file formats.

In several cases, the original layout will be retained in the output document, as far as possible. The different converters have different capabilities for retaining the layout. There are 5 output levels (enumIGRecOutputLevel) for the several layout retentions. Not every converter can realize every output mode. For example, a Word document has Flowing Page and True Page modes, which are very similar to the original output and there are simple text converters, which can retain only the simple text in Plain Text mode (formerly No Format mode) and the text with its attributes in Formatted Text mode (formerly Retain Font and Paragraphs mode).

Besides the output modes, converters have many settings, which can influence the layout. These settings can be controlled using IG_REC_converter_... API functions.