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...
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,...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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 Although still widely used for animations, it's been replaced by PNG for static images.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...
The PDF format is both a Visual Integrity input and an output format. The Portable Document Format (PDF) is the defacto, worldwide standard for capturing, reviewing and exchanging information from almost any application or computer system and sharing it with others....
The UTF-8 standard is a variable length encoding format where the first 128 characters (1st octet) are the original ASCII character set - bare bones text, numbers and simple punctuation without any support for foreign language or special characters. All characters in...
Portable Network Graphics (PNG) is a lossless raster output format intended to replace GIF. Backed by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the international standards organization for the Web, PNG is ideal for use in both documents and on the Web. PNG creates compact...