CSV
CSV is the abbreviation for "Comma Separated Values". This format is a standard format for spreadsheet documents such as online banking overviews. CSV files can easily be converted into ods or xls files, if the right encoding and the right separator (sometimes semicolon) is provided.
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Worth knowing about the aac format AAC is the abbreviation of Advanced Audio Coding and can be defined as a lossy compression method of audio files. Qualitatively, it is superior to the mp3 format and is also considered its successor. The AAC format developed by MPEG supports a multitude of bit rates and is also […]
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The file abbreviation PPT is the data format identifier for Microsoft's PowerPoint interactive presentation program PowerPoint. Interactive means that the contents of the individual presentation "slides" in the file can change dynamically depending on the input of the presenter. The term "film" has come to be naturalized and has its origins in the earlier presentations […]
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Hypertext Markup Language, also known as html, is the skeleton of a website to display and link documents across systems in browsers such as Firefox. Various specific commands allow the flexible format to also implement graphic elements, animations, videos, or audio files in an HTML file. Since the introduction of the current HTML5 standard even […]
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OGG is a container format developed by Xiph.org in which various media content, such as audio or video elements, graphics or subtitles, can be implemented. The associated compression format is called Vorbis and works lossy because certain frequency ranges that are not perceived by the ear, are filtered out. Compared to a file in mp3 […]
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XCF is the standard file format of the free graphics software GIMP (Gnu Image Manipulation Program). Much like the .psd files obtained by Adobe Photoshop .xcf files get information about the various levels, channels, paths, texts and so on. Exporting or converting a .xcf file to another graphic format will result in this information being […]
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XPS files are a format developed by Microsoft which competes with pdf – accordingly the application areas of .pdf and .xps are similar: in particular printable documents and graphics and a formattreuueueueung on different devices. The .xps format was introduced with Microsoft Windows Vista and was replaced with the introduction of Windows 8 by the […]
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Files with the file extension .tex are text documents which were created for example with the free word processing software LaTeX . In particular, TeX is used in the creation of technical or scientific documents, since, for example, the creation of (complex) mathematical formulas is very fast. Since LaTeX is not a conventional text editor […]
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The file format TIFF or TIF is a file exchange format used in both print and digital cameras. TIF is the abbreviation of Tagged Image File and is written as a shorter variant of the Tagged Image File Format (TIFF), but there are no substantive differences. The TIF format can also support the cyan, magenta […]
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The GIF file format has experienced a real comeback in recent years and is now one of the more commonly used formats on the Internet. Originally, the Graphics Interchange Format was developed to store compact image files with transparencies as a sequence of images and also to be able to play them at slower connection […]
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