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
- CMML — Timed metadata and subtitles.
- DAISY Digital Talking Book — A talking book format.
- FLAC — Lossless audio codec.
- Matroska — A container format.
- MNG — moving pictures, based on PNG.
- Musepack — An audio codec.
- Ogg — A container format.
- Portable Network Graphics — lossless compressed format.[2]
- Scalable Vector Graphics — vector graphics.[3]
- SMIL — A media playlisting format and multimedia integration language[4][5]
- Speex — Speech codec.
- WavPack — An audio codec.
- XSPF — A playlist format for multimedia.
Text
- ASCII — a plain text file.
- DVI — device independent (TeX).
- HTML/XHTML — markup language for web pages (ISO/IEC 15445:2000).
- LaTeX — document markup language.
- Office Open XML — a formatted text format (ISO/IEC 29500:2008).[6]
- OpenDocument v1.0 — a formatted text format (ISO/IEC 26300:2006).[7]
- PDF — open standard for documents exchange (ISO 15930-1:2001, ISO 19005-1:2005, ISO 32000-1:2008)
- PostScript — a page description language and programming language.
- Rich Text Format — a formatted text format.
- Unicode
- UTF-8 — text encoding with support for all common languages and scripts.
Other
- CSV — comma separated values, commonly used for spreadsheets or simple databases.
- YAML — human readable data serialization format.
- json — object notation, subset of ECMAScript.
- 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
- ^ "Free File Format Definition". LINFO.org. Retrieved 2007-02-11.
- ^ PNG Specification (Second Edition)
- ^ W3C SVG
- ^ W3C SMIL
- ^ SMIL 2.1 (W3C Recommendation)
- ^ ISO - News - Publication of ISO/IEC 29500:2008, Information technology — Document description and processing languages - Office Open XML file formats
- ^ "ISO/IEC 26300:2006 Information technology -- Open Document Format for Office Applications (OpenDocument) v1.0". ISO.
- ^ W3C XML
External links
- Free File Format Definition
- Definition of Free Cultural Works
- Practical Advice for using Free Formats from Ubuntu Community Documentation