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| TIFF (originally standing for Tagged Image File Format) is a file format for storing images, popular among graphic artists, the publishing industry, | | TIFF (originally standing for Tagged Image File Format) is a file format for storing images, popular among graphic artists, the publishing industry, and both amateur and professional photographers in general. | ||
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| | |MPEG-4 is a method of defining compression of audio and visual (AV) digital data. Uses of MPEG-4 include compression of AV data for web (streaming media) and CD distribution, voice (telephone, videophone) and broadcast television applications. | ||
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| | | JPEG 2000 is an image compression standard and coding system. The standardized filename extensions are .jp2 and .jpx. | ||
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Latest revision as of 13:34, 1 August 2013
File Formats | Complexity | Usability | Currency | Fear Factor | Popularity | X Factor | Description |
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.pdfa | 83 | 72 | 92 | 86 | 76 | 52 | The archival version of the popular .pdf format. It addresses various preservation risks and restricts the inclusion of more complex content (eg. embedded multimedia) that may be difficult to preserve. |
.docx | 99 | 5 | 15 | 76 | 95 | 20 | The latest XML incarnation of .doc, in theory it's human readable but the documentation stretches to thousands of pages. |
TIFF | TIFF (originally standing for Tagged Image File Format) is a file format for storing images, popular among graphic artists, the publishing industry, and both amateur and professional photographers in general. | ||||||
MPEG-4 | MPEG-4 is a method of defining compression of audio and visual (AV) digital data. Uses of MPEG-4 include compression of AV data for web (streaming media) and CD distribution, voice (telephone, videophone) and broadcast television applications. | ||||||
JPEG 2000 | JPEG 2000 is an image compression standard and coding system. The standardized filename extensions are .jp2 and .jpx. | ||||||
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