BRAVO TECHNOLOGY CENTER

Last updated: September 17, 2007

This is a list of file formats commonly used by us or our clients.

Archive and Compression

• CAB - Microsoft Cabinet
• GZ, GZIP - GZIP format
• RAR - WinRAR
• SIT - StuffIt (Macintosh)
• TAR - UNIX archive
• ZIP - Compressed Folder, Winzip, PK-Zip

Computer-Aided Design (CAD)

• DWG - AutoCAD and Open Design Alliance applications
• DXF, or ASCII Drawing Interchange file format

Database

• DBF - DBase, DBase III/IV/V, Microsoft FoxPro
• MDB - Microsoft Database (Access)
• SQL - bundled SQL queries
• WDB - Microsoft Works Database
• FP7 - Filemaker Pro 7
• FP8 - Filemaker Pro 8
• DB - Paradox
• GDB - Borland Interbase Databases

Disk Images

• GHO - Ghost hard disk image (Symantec/Norton/Binary Research)
• V2I - V2i, Livestate Recovery, Backup Exec System Recovery
• ISO - CD/DVD image (ready-to-burn/mount)
• IMA - Floppy image
• IMZ - Compressed IMA

Executable (Programs)

• BAT - DOS batch file
• CMD - NT command shell script
• COM - Microsoft executable
• EXE - Microsoft relocate-able executable
• VBS - Visual Basic Script
• DLL - dynamic link library
• VBX - Visual Basic Extensions
• OCX - Object Control Extensions

Font file

• ABF - Adobe Binary Screen Font
• FON - Bitmapped Font - Microsoft Windows
• OTF - OpenType Font
• PostScript Font - Type 1, Type 2
• TTF - TrueType Font

Graphics, Raster

• ART - AOL proprietary format
• BMP - Microsoft Windows Bitmap Formatted Image
• CPT - Corel PHOTO-PAINT
• Exif - Exchangeable image file format, meta data for photos
• GIF - CompuServe's Graphics Interchange Format
• ICO - Microsoft Windows icon files
• JPG, JPEG - a lossy image format widely used for photos
• MAX - ScanSoft PaperPort document
• MNG - Multiple Network Graphics (animated PNG)
• PICT - Apple Macintosh PICT image
• PNG - Portable Network Graphic
• PSD - Adobe Photoshop Drawing
• PSP - Jasc Paint Shop Pro image
• SGI, RGB, INT, BW - Silicon Graphics Image
• TIF (or .tiff) Tagged Image File Format (usually lossless, but many variants exist)

Graphics, Vector

• AI - Adobe Illustrator Document
• EPS - Encapsulated Postscript
• CGM - Computer Graphics Metafile an ISO Standard
• CMX - Corel Draw vector image
• DXF - ASCII Drawing Interchange file format, used in AutoCAD
• SVG - Scalable Vector Graphics, employs XML
• VRML - Virtual Reality Modeling Language

Page description language

• DVI
• PCL
• PDF
• PS - PostScript
• CSS - Cascaded Style Sheet
• XSLT - XML Style Sheet

Presentation

• PPS - Microsoft PowerPoint Show
• PPT - Microsoft PowerPoint Presentation
• KEY - Apple Keynote Presentation
• SXI - OpenOffice.org Presentation

Sound and music

Lossless Uncompressed Audio

• AIFF
• AU
• WAV - Microsoft Wave

Lossless Compressed Audio

• FLAC - free lossless codec of the Ogg project
• M4A - Apple Lossless
• WMA - Windows Media Audio 9 Lossless (also supports lossy)

Lossy Compressed Audio

• MP3 - MPEG Layer 3
• OGG - Vorbis (Ogg project, free and similar in principle to MP3)
• GSM - GSM Full Rate, originally developed for use in mobile phones
• WMA - Windows Media Audio
• AAC (.m4a, .mp4, .m4p, .aac) - Advanced Audio Coding (usually in an MPEG-4 container)
• RA, RM - RealAudio
• SWA - Macromedia Shockwave Audio

Other music formats

• MID - MIDI file

Playlist formats

• ASX - Advanced Stream Redirector
• M3U
• PLS

Outlook

• OST - Offline Storage File (Exchange Server client-side cache)
• PST - Personal Storage File
• VCF - Virtual Business Card

Spreadsheet

• CSV - Comma-Separated Values
• gnumeric - Linux gnumeric spreadsheet, gziped XML file
• QPW - Quattro for Windows
• SXC - StarOffice/OpenOffice.org spreadsheet
• WK1 - Lotus 1-2-3 2.0
• WK3 - Lotus 1-2-3 3.0
• WK4 - Lotus 1-2-3 4.0
• WKS - Lotus 1-2-3 1.0
• WKS - Microsoft Works
• WQ1 - Quattro Pro DOS
• XLK - Microsoft Excel worksheet backup
• XLS - Microsoft Excel worksheet
• XLSX - Microsoft Excel 12 worksheet compressed XML
• XLR - Microsoft Works 6.0
• XLT - Microsoft Excel worksheet template
• XLW - Microsoft Excel worksheet workspace 4.0
• DIF  - Data Interchange Format

Text Document

• ASC - ASCII text with Layout
• DOC - Microsoft Word
• DOCX - Microsoft Word 12 compressed XML format
• DOT - Microsoft Word Template
• HTML - HyperText Markup Language (.html, .htm)
• RTF - Rich Text Format
• SXW - StarOffice/OpenOffice.org Word Processor format
• TXT - ASCII or Unicode raw text file
• WPD - WordPerfect document
• WPS - Microsoft Works document
• WRI - Microsoft Write
• XML - eXtensible Markup Language - OpenOffice

Video

• 3GP - Mobile phone video
• ASF - Container format. MPEG-4 compression is common.
• AVI - Container format. MPEG-1 and a variant of MPEG-4 are common)
• SWF - Macromedia Flash (for viewing)
• FLA - Macromedia Flash (source file)
• GIF - Animated GIF
• MKV - Matroska container format
• MOV - QuickTime container format. Sorenson codec is the most common
• MPEG - Motion Picture Expert Group
• NSV - Nullsoft Streaming Video container
• OGM - a container format for Ogg Vorbis
• RAM, RM - RealMedia video
• WMV - Microsoft video in ASF container

Virtual Machines

Microsoft Virtual PC/Virtual Server

• VFD - Virtual Floppy Disk
• VHD - Virtual Hard Disk
• VUD - Undo Disk for VHD
• VMC - Virtual Machine Configuration
• VSV - Virtual Machine Saved State

EMC VMware ESX/GSX/Workstation/Player

• DSK, VMDK -Virtual Machine Disk
• LOG - Virtual Machine Logfile
• NVRAM - Virtual Machine BIOS
• VMEM - Virtual Machine paging file
• VMSD - Virtual Machine snapshot metadata
• VMSN - Virtual Machine snapshot
• VMSS, STD - Virtual Machine suspended state
• VMTM - Virtual Machine team data
• VMX, CFG -Virtual Machine configuration
• VMXF - Virtual Machine team configuration

Webpage

• Static
  • CSS - Cascaded Style Sheet
  • HTM, HTML - HyperText Markup Language
  • XML (.xhtml, .xht) - eXtensible HyperText Markup Language
  • MHTML - Archived HTML
  • CHM - Microsoft Compiled HTML Help
• Dynamically generated
  • ASP - Microsoft Active Server Page
  • ASPX  - Microsoft Active Server Page. NET
  • ADP - AOLserver Dynamic Page
  • CFM - ColdFusion
  • CGI - Computer Gateway Interface
  • JSP - JavaServer Pages
  • PL - Perl script
  • PHP (.php, .php?, .phtml) - PHP script. ? is version number
  • shtml - SSI: HTML with Server Side Includes
  • HTA - HTML Applications
  • JS - JavaScript
  • PY - Python
  • SH - Shell script

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