What Is a TEX File?
It’s a plain text format that might include not only text characters but also symbols and mathematical expressions.
Notepad in Windows,Notepad++, andVimand are some examples oftext editor programs.
Windows Texture Viewer downloads as aRARfile that you’ll need afile extractorlike7-Zipto open.
To use DDS files with GIMP requires theDDS Plugin.
If your file includes an equation that you want to convert to PNG, uselatex2pngoriTex2Img.
Still Can’t Open It?
It’s easy to mix up file extensions because so many of them look so similar.
Those can open in BrawlBox, a tool included inBrawlTools.
EXT is another file extension that could easily be misread as TEX.
FAQ
Yes.
Plain-text support is a core component of modern mobile operating systems.
You candownload projects on Overleaf in a variety of formatsincluding TEX files.
You candownload PDFs or the project in its entirety, packed in a ZIP file, from ShareLaTeX.
