Document File Format - Common Document File Formats

Common Document File Formats

  • ASCII, UTF-8 — plain text formats
  • Amigaguide
  • .doc for Microsoft Word — Structural binary format developed by Microsoft (specifications available since 2008 under the Open Specification Promise)
  • DjVu — file format designed primarily to store scanned documents
  • DocBook — an XML format for technical documenation
  • HTML (.html, .htm), (open standard, ISO from 2000), in combination with possible image files referred to.
  • FictionBook (.fb2) — open XML-based e-book format
  • Office Open XML — .docx (XML-based standard for office documents, ISO standard from 2008)
  • OpenDocument — .odt (XML-based standard for office documents, ISO standard from 2006)
  • OpenOffice.org XML — .sxw (open, XML-based format for office documents)
  • OXPS — Open XML Paper Specification
  • PalmDoc — Common Handheld document format
  • Plucker — Handheld navigable widely used document standard
  • .pages for Pages
  • PDF — Open standard for documents exchange. ISO standards from 2001, 2005, 2008. It is readable on almost every platform with free or open source readers. Open source PDF creators are also available.
  • Rich Text Format (RTF) — meta data format being developed by Microsoft since 1987 for Microsoft products and cross-platform document interchange
  • SYmbolic LinK (SYLK)
  • TeX — Popular open-source typesetting program and format. First successful mathematical notation language.
  • TEI — XML format for digital publication
  • Troff
  • Uniform Office Format — Chinese standard
  • WordPerfect (.wpd, .wp, .wp7, .doc) (Note: possible confusion with Word format extension)

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