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List of free file formats

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A free file format is a file format whose full specification is freely available and for which there are no restrictions (e.g. legal or technical) on its use.[1]

Archiving and compression

  • 7z — for both archiving and compression.
  • bzip2 — for compression.
  • gzip — for compression.
  • PAQ — for compression.
  • SQX — for both archiving and compression.
  • tar — for archiving.
  • ZIP — for both archiving and compression.

Multimedia

Text

Other

  • CSV — comma separated values, commonly used for spreadsheets or simple databases.
  • YAML — human readable data serialization format.
  • XML — a general-purpose markup language.[8]
    • RSS — syndication.
  • CSS — style sheet format usually used with (X)HTML.
  • DjVu — file format for scanned images or documents.
  • EAS3 — binary file format for floating point data.
  • ELF — Executable and Linkable Format.
  • FreeOTFE — container for encrypted data.
  • Hierarchical Data Format — Multi-platform data format for storing multidimensional arrays, among other data structures.
  • iCalendar — calendar data format.
  • NZB — for multipart binary files on Usenet.
  • NetCDF — for scientific data.
  • SDXF — the Structured Data eXchange Format.
  • SFV — checksum format.
  • TrueCrypt — container for encrypted data.
  • WebDav — internet filesystem format.

See also

References

  1. ^ "Free File Format Definition". LINFO.org. Retrieved 2007-02-11.
  2. ^ PNG Specification (Second Edition)
  3. ^ W3C SVG
  4. ^ W3C SMIL
  5. ^ SMIL 2.1 (W3C Recommendation)
  6. ^ ISO - News - Publication of ISO/IEC 29500:2008, Information technology — Document description and processing languages - Office Open XML file formats
  7. ^ "ISO/IEC 26300:2006 Information technology -- Open Document Format for Office Applications (OpenDocument) v1.0". ISO.
  8. ^ W3C XML