June 2011
.AI | Adobe Illustrator image file (PostScript) |
.AU | the most common sound format found on the Internet; commonly used by NeXT and UNIX computers; use WPlany, a versatile sound player that plays .AU, .IFF, PC raw .SND, .VOC, and .WAV format files, to play |
.AVI | Microsoft’s Video for Windows Audio Visual Interleaved format; allows both audio and visual information; can be played using the MS-WINDOWS Media Player |
.DOC | MS-WORD for Windows DOCument |
.DWG | AutoCAD DrawinG format |
.DXF | AutoCAD Data eXchange File |
.EPS | Encapsulated PostScript |
.FLI | Animation format; popular for fractal animations; use MS-WINDOWS Media Player or AAplay, a Windows-based application for playing FLC/FLI animations, but that also extends the Windows Media Player to include these animation formats. |
.FLC | same as .FLI |
.GIF | The CompuServe Graphics Interchange Format (pronounced "jiff"); provides built-in file compression; very popular format on the Web; use LView, a package for viewing multiple formats of pictures, including JPEG, BMP, GIF, TGA, etc., to view |
.HTML | HTML is HyperText Markup Language, the coding language of the WWW; plain text file; use a Web browser or HTML editor to view |
.HTM | same as above |
.JPG | Joint Photographic Experts Group, a 24-bit graphic format; use LView or WinJPEG to view |
.JPEG | same as above |
.JPE | same as above |
.JFIF | same as above |
.MOV | Quicktime Movie format; Apple Macintosh native movie format; use Quicktime for Windows to view |
.MOVIE | Silicon Graphics Movie format |
.MPEG | (preferred) MPEG (Moving Picture Experts Group) is the standard movie/video format for the WWW; use Mpegplay to view |
.MPG | same as above |
.MP3 | (preferred) MPEG audio |
.MP4 | media container format |
Adobe’s Portable Document Format; use the free Adobe Acrobat Reader to view | |
.PNG | Portable Network Graphics |
.PS | PostScript |
.QT | Quicktime Movie format; Apple Macintosh native movie format; use Quicktime for Windows to view |
.RTF | Rich Text Format |
.SVG | Scalable Vector Graphics |
.TEX | a TeX file |
.TIF | TIFF (Tagged Image File Format) is a very large high quality image format; use LView or WinJPEG to view |
.TIFF | same as above |
.TXT | a plain (read: ASCII) TeXT File such as those created with the MS-WINDOWS Notepad or other ASCII text editor |
.WAV | Microsoft WAVeform format for use with Windows; use WPlany to play (or MS- WINDOWS Media Player) |
.XLS | Excel for Windows spreadsheet |