Formats
News, and articles about industry-standard file formats. Visual integrity supports the most used vector, image, and text formats.
Best PDF to Word Converters for Text and Graphics
Monday, 28 February 2022
Solutions are abundant for converting PDF to Word. We don’t make PDF to DOCX converters ourselves, but with 30 years of experience in PDF conversion, we can offer some solid recommendations on how to choose the right tool for your job. At Visual Integrity, we focus on the graphics in PDF files. We make both
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Unicode
Thursday, 18 February 2016
Unicode is the standard for defining computer characters. It removes the limitations and conflicts of traditional encodings. With 137,929 characters, it has enough capacity to completely cover the world’s current and historic languages. It also contains symbols and special characters like emojis. Implementations include UTF-8, UTF-16, and UTF-32. Individual characters are defined as code points instead of glyphs. This
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ISO-8859 Encoding
Thursday, 18 February 2016
ISO-8859 encoding is an extension to to the basic ASCII character set to accommodate non-English languages. It dates back to 1983 and was last updated in 1998. ASCII used the first 7 bits of the 8-bit octet (128 characters). The remaining bit was used to add extended, language specific characters. Usage of the extra bit
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SVG for Scientific Illustration
Thursday, 26 April 2012
Scientists use illustrations and diagrams to communicate ideas and findings. Today, papers, posters and scientific journals appear in print and on-line. They contain charts, equations, line-art, diagrams and drawings. Use SVG for all types of scientific illustrations. It’s is the ideal format for the scientific arena. Ensure top quality by using SVG for Scientific Drawings
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EMF Format
Wednesday, 21 March 2012
Enhanced Metafile (EMF) is one of two metafile formats supported in Microsoft Windows. Metafiles are the native vector format for Microsoft Office and other Windows applications. They are also the core graphics display format of the Windows operating system. WMF is a 16-bit version found in 16-bit and 32-bit Windows platforms. EMF is an enhanced
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WMF Format
Tuesday, 20 March 2012
Windows Metafiles (WMF) and Enhanced Metafiles (EMF) are the core display formats of the Windows operating system. They are also the native graphics formats for Microsoft Office applications. WMF is still in wide-use today across 16-bit and 32-bit Windows platforms. EMF is an enhanced 32-bit format update. When you copy a drawing. Windows stores it as a metafile,
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TIFF Format
Tuesday, 20 March 2012
TIFF traces its origins to the 1980 where it was proposed as a standard for the emerging desktop scanner market. Originally, it was a simple format and could only understand black & white. Now, it is a robust format which handles high color, greyscale and large files like a breeze. Today, TIFF is a popular
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BMP
Tuesday, 20 March 2012
The BMP format is the native image format for the Microsoft Windows operating system. Historically it was an important format in productivity and publishing applications but has been displaced by more compact, efficient and portable formats such as JPEG, PNG and TIFF. BMP is still used in some applications. BMP files are high quality but
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JPEG Format
Monday, 19 March 2012
JPEG format, or JPG, is a widely-used raster graphics format in print and on-line. It is also the most common format for still digital camera output. JPEG stands for Joint Photographic Experts Group, Today, the JPEG format is an open standard format that is jointly maintained by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC),
GIF Format
Monday, 19 March 2012
The Graphics Interchange Format (GIF) is a raster output format. Although still widely used for animations, it’s been replaced by PNG for static images. It’s a good format for graphics with sharp borders and distinct color transitions It’s used for logos, line-art and other images with few colors. Compact with fast load times GIF also
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