Common File Types And Extensions Flashcards
Graphics
JPEG (joint photographic Experts Group)
gif ( graphics interchange format)
PNG ( portable network graphics)
BMP (bitmap image)
Tiff ( tagged image file format)
Paint
Office
Docx, pptx
Microsoft Office
PowerPoint
Audio
Mp3 ( moving picture experts group layer 3 audio)
AAC ( Advanced audio coding)
Flac ( Free lossless audio codec)
Wma ( Microsoft Windows Media Audio)
Windows media player
Video
MP4
AVI
FLV
WMV
Windows media player
Video files are made up of a container and a codec
Codec is used to compress and decompress the video where the video files are too big causing the video not to play or be downloaded
Program
Exe
Com
Actual programs
Portable Document Format
Adobe Reader
Meant for viewing not editing
Compressed
Zip
Rar
WinZip
WinRAR
Plain text
Txt
Wordpad
Rich Text Format
rtf
Most word processers
Cannot be opened in Notepad
Microsoft WordPad
Can save more information than text files, includes different fonts
Hypertext Markup Language
HTML
XHTML
. Htm
Web page which can be opened in a web browser
How to use PDF safely
Can be converted to word, excel
What happens to files when converting them to PDF
T compresses the file
Quicker to email
Electronic publication
Epub
Flexible and portable format that allows publishets to customize eBooks
Used Calibre to read ePub documents
Difference between between a text file and document file
A document file can store more complex information such as custom formatting options and styles, while a text file only stores plain text
Document files
Doc
Docx
Often
Google Docs
LibreOffice