Envoy

Envoy was a portable document format released around the same time as the PDF format. It was included in the WordPerfect office suite. Two versions Envoy 1 and Envoy 7 were released. Files were created by printing to a special print driver and opened in a Envoy viewer. Originally developed by Tumbleweed software

File Format
Envoy files have the extension .EVY, compression was changed from LZW in version 1 to LZSS in version 7. Version 1 files can be opened in Envoy 7 viewer. Macintosh versions of Envoy were also created.

File Identification
Version 1 .EVY files begin with the hex values ""

Version 7 .EVY files begin with the hex values ""

Software

 * Envoy Software for Win95 & Mac
 * Corel Wordperfect Office Suite 8 with Envoy 7 viewer

Sample Files

 * Sample EVY file from Corel WP Suite v6.1
 * Corel Classic Books in Envoy format
 * Samples from Tumbleweed Software
 * https://telparia.com/fileFormatSamples/document/envoy/

Links

 * Envoy : Wikipedia
 * Reading Envoy 7 Documents