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Graphics File Formats FAQ (Part 3 of 4): Where to Get File Format Specifications
Posted-By: auto-faq 3.1.1.2 Archive-name: graphics/fileformats-faq/part3 Posting-Frequency: monthly Last-modified: 20Jan97 Graphics File Formats FAQ (Part 3 of 4): Where to Get File Format Specifications ------------------------------ This FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) list contains information on graphics file formats, including, raster, vector, metafile, Page Description Language, 3D object, animation, and multimedia formats. This FAQ is divided into four parts, each covering a different area of graphics file format information: Graphics File Formats FAQ (Part 1 of 4): General Graphics Format Questions Graphics File Formats FAQ (Part 2 of 4): Image Conversion and Display Programs Graphics File Formats FAQ (Part 3 of 4): Where to Get File Format Specifications Graphics File Formats FAQ (Part 4 of 4): Tips and Tricks of the Trade Please email contributions, corrections, and suggestions about this FAQ to jdm@ora.com. Relevant information posted to newsgroups will not automatically make it into this FAQ. -- James D. Murray
Section Contents
- News Headers
- 0. Contents of Where to Get File Format Specifications
- I. General questions about this FAQ
- 0. Maintainer's Comments
- 1. What's new in this latest FAQ release?
- II. Where to Get File Format Specifications
- 3DMF - QuickDraw 3D Metafile
- 3DS - Autodesk 3D Studio
- ABF - Adobe Binary Screen Font
- ADI - AutoCAD Device-Independent Binary Plotter Format
- AFM - Adobe Font Metrics File Format
- AI - Adobe Illustrator File Format
- ART - Another Ray Tracer
- Atari ST Graphics File Formats
- AVS - Application Visualization System
- AWD - Microsoft Fax At Work Document Type: Bitmap
- BDF - Adobe Glyph Bitmap Distribution Format
- BIN - SGI Powerflip
- BMP - Windows Bitmap Format
- BRender
- BRL-CAD - Ballistic Research Laboratory CAD
- BUFR - Binary Universal Form for the Representation of Meteorological Data
- BYU - BYU Movie
- CAD-3D
- CALS - Computer Aided Acquisition and Logistics Support Raster Format
- CAM - Casio Camera
- CCITT - CCITT Group 3 and Group 4 Encoding
- CDF - Common Data Format
- CDF - Cyberspace Description Format
- CDL - CADKey CADL Language
- CGM - Computer Graphics Metafile
- CIF
- CMP - LeadView
- CMU - Carnegie Mellon University Formats
- COB - Calgari trueSpace2 File Format
- CXS
- Cyberware
- DEM - Digital Elevation Model
- DGN - Microstation
- DKB - DKB-Trace
- DLG - Digital Line Graph
- DPX - Digital Moving Picture Exchange
- DRW - Micrografx Designer/Draw Plus Format
- DWB - Coryphaeus Software Designers Workbench
- DWG - Autodesk drawing
- DXF - Autodesk Drawing eXchange Format
- EMF - Microsoft Enhanced Metafile
- ENFF - Extended Neutral File Format
- EPS - Encapsulated PostScript
- FACT
- FBM - Fuzzy Bitmap
- FFIVW - File Format for the Interchange of Virtual Worlds
- FITS - Flexable Image Transport System
- FLASHPIX
- FLT - MultiGen Flight
- GDS - McDonnell-Douglas Things
- GFO - SGI Radiosity
- GIF - Graphics Interchange Format
- GKS - Graphics Kernel System
- GrADS - GrADS Metafile
- GRASP - Graphical System for Presentation
- GRIB - Gridded Binary
- HDF - Hierarchical Data Format
- HDS - Hierarchical Data System
- HPGL - Hewlett-Packard Graphics Language
- HPPCL - Hewlett-Packard Printer Control Language
- HRF - Hitachi Raster Format
- IFF - Electronic Arts Interchange File Format
- IGES - Initial Graphics Exchange Specification
- IM - Performer
- IMA - Zenographics Mirage Graphics File Format
- IMJ - Image JPEG
- INGR - Intergraph Raster File Format
- IRTP - Graphicon-2000 Interactive Real-Time PHIGS
- IV - SGI Inventor
- IV-VRML - Inventor VRML Format
- JBIG - Joint Bilevel Image Group
- JCAMP
- JFIF - JPEG File Interchange Format
- LSA/LSB - Lightscape Technologies ASCII and Binary
- LWOB - Lightwave Object Format
- MedFileS
- MGF - Materials and Geometry Format
- MIFF - Magick Image File Format
- MNG - Multiple Network Graphics
- MSDL - Manchester Scene Description Language
- MTL - Wavefront
- NAPLPS - North American Presentation Layer Protocol Syntax
- netCDF - Network Common Data Format
- NFF - Haines Neutral File Format
- NFF - WorldToolKit Neutral File Format
- NITF - National Imagery Transmission Format
- OBJ - Wavefront Object
- ODIF - Open Document Interchange Format
- ODL - Object Description Language
- OFF - Object File Format
- OpenMath
- PBM - Portable Bitmap
- PCX - ZSoft Paint
- PDF - Portable Document Format
- PDS - Planetary Data System Format
- PGM - Portable Greymap
- PHD - PolyHedra Database
- PIC - Lotus PIC Graphics Format
- PIC - Micrografx Draw! Graphics Format
- PIC - Pegasus Imaging Corporation Format
- PIC - Video Show Graphics Format
- PICT - Macintosh Picture
- PIX - Inset Pix
- PLY - ZipPack
- PNG - Portable Network Graphics
- PPM - Portable Pixmap
- POL - InnovMetric Software Polygon Models Format
- POV - Persistence of Vision Raytracing
- PS - PostScript
- PSD - Adobe Photoshop
- PTU - Performer Terrain Utilities
- QT - QuickTime
- QTVR - QuickTime VR
- RAD - Radience
- RAS - Sun Rasterfile
- RAY - Rayshade
- RFT-DCA - Revisable-Form Text Document Content Architecture
- RAW - Photoshop RAW
- RIB - Renderman Interface Bytestream
- RIFF - Microsoft Resource Interchange File Format
- RIX - ColoRIX Image File
- RTF - Rich Text Format
- RWX - Criterion RenderWare
- S1K - S1000 Simnet Format
- SAF - Standard Archive Format
- SAIF - Spatial Archive Interchange Format
- SAT - ACIS
- Scene
- Scitex HandShake Formats
- SCN - SCeNe RTrace
- SDL - Alias Wavefront Scene Description Language
- SDML - Spacial Data Modeling Language
- SDTS - Spatial Data Transfer Standard
- SFF - Scene File Format
- SGI - Silicon Graphics Image File Format
- SHG - Segmented Hyper-Graphic
- Softimage
- SPIFF - Still Picture Interchange File Format
- STL - Stereolithography Interface Format
- TDDD - Imagine Object File Format
- TGA - Truevision (Targa) File Format
- TIFF - Tag Image File Format
- TRIF - Tiled Raster Interchange Format
- TTF - TrueType Font
- Type 42 Font Format
- URT - Utah Raster Toolkit
- VCA - Visual Clip Art
- VICAR - Video Image Communication and Retrieval
- VIFF - Visualization Image File Format
- VIT - VITec Scanner Raster Format
- VPF - Vector Product Format
- VRML - Virtual Reality Modeling Language
- WebOOGL - Web Object Oriented Graphics Library
- WMF - Microsoft Windows Metafile
- WPG - WordPerfect Graphics Metafile
- X3D - x3d and xdart Formats
- XBM - X BitMap
- XOF - RenderMorphics
- XPM - X PixMap
- WSQ - Wavelet-packet Scalar Quantization Format
- XWD - X Window Dump
- III. Document Sources
- 0. U.S. Government and Military Standards Sources
- 1. International Standards Document Sources
- 2. Commercial Document Sources
- 3. Other Standards Sources
- IV. Kudos and Assertions
- 0. Acknowledgments
- 1. About The Author
- 2. Disclaimer
- 3. Copyright Notice
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