WDP
WDP files are image files (especially digital photos) in a format developed by Microsoft known as JPEG XR (eXtended Range), but also known as HD Photo or Windows Media Photo . Apart from Microsoft Windows, the support is rather poor to moderate, so sometimes a conversion to another format – for example, jpg – makes […]
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The ai file extension is used by Adobe Illustrator, a vector graphics editor. As a proprietary file format, the ai (Adobe Illustrator Artwork) format is maintained by Adobe Systems. However, it is based on the non-proprietary eps and pdf formats (ai files may be saved with the option of either pdf or postscript compatibility). As […]
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The cdr file extension is used for more than one file type. In most cases though, a cdr file will contain a CorelDraw Image saved in the CDR graphics format, a proprietary format for storing vector graphics. Besides CorelDraw and other programs from the Corel suite, cdr image files can be opened e.g. with Adobe […]
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The pptx file extension is used by Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 and younger to store presentations. Earlier versions of PowerPoint use the ppt extension. Opening a pptx file launches the PowerPoint software in editor mode. There is another format, ppsx, that will start the slide show presentation right away. A pptx file is a zip-compressed package […]
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The docx file extension is used by Microsoft Word Documents that have been saved in the Open XML Format, which Microsoft has developed for their Office suite. DOCX is the default way Microsoft Word saves documents for version 2007 and up of the text processing software. Earlier Word versions use doc as their default file […]
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MPEG-1 or mpeg-2 Audio Layer III, mostly known as mp3 or MP3, designates a format for coding digital audio data. MP3 still ranks among the most popular formats for storing audio data. In the early 80s, the German Fraunhofer Institut developed MP3 as a lossy format compared to Compact Disc Digital Audio (CDDA): Compression rate […]
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A pages file is a word processing document created by Pages, the free word processor supplied with Apple computers as part of the iWork office suite. If your document has a filename ending in .pages, it is a pages file. Apple (Mac) desktop and laptop computers can open pages files, and so can an iPad […]
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One of the more popular graphical formats for web design, Portable Network Graphics (PNG) is a non-patent licensed image file format which supports lossless data compression. It was first released in 1996, and was developed as an enhanced version of the standard Graphics Interchange Format (GIF). It is especially good for storing small graphic files […]
Read MoreCreated by Adobe software including Acrobat, Capture, Design or other open-source printing shareware, Portable Document Format (PDF) files simplify portability. Designed to include all the captured printed elements of their source, pdf-files can be viewed using Acrobat Reader software to display multiple pages and zoom in or out. Because PDF format files contain all the […]
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For a long time, Flash Video was the dominant standard on the Internet and streaming platforms such as YouTube or Vimeo opted for the flv format (Flash Video). Smaller platforms still use Flash Videos today, whereas the largest streamers have long switched to HTML5-based videos. Flash is a crucial security vulnerability in browsers, smartphones often […]
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