News Feeds

What's this?

Most Popular Blog Posts

Handy to Know File Formats
Sunday, 21 January 2007
Format Name
File Extension Icon
Description
Acrobat / Portable Document Format
PDFPDF file iconWho: Adobe
Purpose: Document publication
Benefit: Complete layout consistency
Issues: No major issues
Encapsulated PostScript EPSEPS file iconWho: Adobe
Purpose: Resizable designs
Benefit: Inter-operable vector
Issues:
"Jay-peg" Joint Photographic Experts Group
JPGJPG file iconWho: Adobe
Purpose: High compression photos
Benefit: High quality, small file
Issues: Lose quality with compression
"PING" / Portable Network Graphics
PNGPNG file iconWho: Open
Purpose: New superior web format
Benefit: Better transparency & compression
Issues: Poorly supported by Microsoft & Adobe
"Giff" / Graphics Interchange Format GIF Who: Compuserve
Purpose: Website images
Benefit: Can have movement in frames
Issues: Proprietary, poor transparency
Hypertext Markup Language
HTML Who: Open
Purpose: Webpage layout
Benefit: Universal, well supported
Issues: Limited capability
"Swif" / Shockwave Flash
SWF Who: Adobe (previously Macromedia)
Purpose: Cool stuff on the web
Benefit: Flexibility and capability
Issues:
Microsoft Word Document
DOCWord file iconWho: Microsoft
Purpose: Document creation
Benefit: Widely used
Issues: Closed and proprietary

Click the title of each file format to go to WikiPedia for more information

Comments

Write comment

 
busy
 
< Prev