Overview of File Formats

Visual Integrity Formats

Below is a list of all the formats we support. If you are just curious about formats, you can click each to learn more.

Input Formats

All of our input formats are also output formats. They are all vector formats and allow a great deal of control over the conversion of the page.

Output Formats

We support all industry-standard vector and image formats as output formats. Pick and choose which ones you need.

Text Formats

Sometimes text needs to be stripped from a file or precisely placed in an output file. We cover it all.

VECTOR FORMATS

PDF

Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) is the defacto standard for capturing, reviewing, archiving and exchanging pages.

PostScript

PostScript was the first successful page language and is still very active behind the scenes of printers and operating systems.

EPS

Encapsulated PostScript is used for storage and exchange of high-quality vector graphics and composite pages.

SVG

SVG is the Web standard for storing and publishing scalable vector graphics. It's also supported in many applications.

DXF

DXF is the industry-standard CAD exchange format developed by Autodesk to share AutoCAD data with other programs.

WMF

Windows Metafile is the display and clipboard format of Windows and the native graphics format for MS Office.

EMF

Enhanced Metafile is an enhanced 32-bit metafile used primarily as a graphics language for printing.

CGM

Computer Graphics Metafile is a vector format used for storage, exchange and publishing of technical graphics.

MIF

MIF is a vector output format and the native graphics format of FrameMaker from Adobe.

HPGL

Hewlett Packard Graphics Language is a graphics language for plotters but it's also used as an exchange format.

RASTER FORMATS

PNG

Portable Network Graphics are the most prevalent images on the web for text, line art and graphics.

JPEG

The JPEG format is ideal for images produced through digital photography. It offers quality with high compression.

GIF

GIF is a 256 color raster format. Although still in use, its popularity has fallen in favor of PNG.

BMP

BMP is a bitmap image format defined for device independence by Microsoft for use with their API..

TIFF

TIFF was historically used with scanning, fax and archive applications. Today it supports high color-depth.

TEXT FORMATS

UTF-8

UTF-8 is an encoding which represents any character in Unicode. It is used on the Web and in email.

ISO 8859

ISO-8859 was introduced to accommodate the special characters required for Latin alphabets.

Unicode

Unicode is a character set that defines a unique number for every character in the world.

Learn More About File Formats

Each of the blocks above includes detailed information on a file format. They also include some external links for you to explore to learn more.

Additional resources include:

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