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Common File Formats - Cheat Sheet

This document provides a cheat sheet of common file formats used for desktop publishing, spreadsheets, presentations, images, fonts, audio, and video. It lists specific file extensions for formats such as Adobe InDesign, Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, JPEG, PNG, TIFF, GIF, BMP, RAW, WAV, FLAC, MP3, AVI, MP4, MOV, and MKV. The document serves as a quick reference for identifying different file types based on their extensions.

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Common File Formats - Cheat Sheet

This document provides a cheat sheet of common file formats used for desktop publishing, spreadsheets, presentations, images, fonts, audio, and video. It lists specific file extensions for formats such as Adobe InDesign, Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, JPEG, PNG, TIFF, GIF, BMP, RAW, WAV, FLAC, MP3, AVI, MP4, MOV, and MKV. The document serves as a quick reference for identifying different file types based on their extensions.

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Common File Formats - Cheat Sheet

Desktop Publishing
Spreadsheet
.INDD – Adobe InDesign
.PSD – Adobe Photoshop .GSHEET – Google Drive Spreadsheet
.AI – Adobe Illustrator
.ODS – OpenDocument spreadsheet
.PDF – Portable Document Format -
Adobe Acrobat or Adobe .XLS – Microsoft Excel worksheet
Reader sheet (97–2003)
.XLSB – Microsoft Excel binary
.XCF – File format used by the GIMP, workbook
as well as other programs. .XLSM – Microsoft Excel Macro-
enabled workbook

.XLSX – Office Open XML worksheet


Document formats sheet

These files store formatted text and


plain text (with the exception of .txt).
Presentation

.DOC – Microsoft Word document .PPS – Microsoft PowerPoint Show


.DOCM – Microsoft Word macro-
enabled document .ODP – OpenDocument Presentation
.DOCX – Office Open XML document
.GSLIDES – Google Drive
.ODT – OpenDocument text document Presentation

.GDOC – Google Drive Document

.EPUB – EPUB open standard for e- Font File


books
.FNT – Bitmapped Font – Graphics
.RTF – Rich Text document Environment Manager (GEM)

.OTF – OpenType Font


.XML – eXtensible Markup Language
.TTF (.ttf, .ttc) – TrueType Font
.HTML – HyperText Markup
Language (.html, .htm)

.TXT – ASCII or Unicode plain text file


Common File Formats - Cheat Sheet

Image File Formats

- Raster graphics
- Vector graphics
Raster or bitmap files store images as a
group of pixels. Vector graphics use geometric
primitives such as points, lines, curves,
and polygons to represent images.
.JPEG, JFIF (.jpg or .jpeg) – Joint
Photographic Experts Group; a lossy
image format widely used to display SVG – Scalable Vector Graphics,
photographic images employs XML

.PNG – Portable Network Graphic AI – Adobe Illustrator Document


(lossless, recommended for display and
edition of graphic images) DR – CorelDRAW Document

CMX – CorelDRAW vector image


.TIFF (.tif or .tiff) – Tagged Image File
Format (usually lossless, but many
variants exist, including lossy ones)

.GIF (.gif) – Graphics Interchange Audio


Format
.WAV - Microsoft Wave
.BMP – Microsoft Windows Bitmap
formatted image .FLAC - Free lossless codec of the
Ogg project

.RAW – General term for minimally .WMA - Windows Media Audio 9


processed image data (acquired by a -Lossless
digital camera)
.MP3 - MPEG Layer 3
.CR2 – Canon camera raw format;
photos have this on some Canon
cameras if the quality RAW is selected
in camera settings Video

.AVI

.MPEG-4, shortened "MP4"

.MOV, QuickTime (.mov)

.MKV, Matroska (*.mkv)

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