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The title says it all. KSM-2501ZX, IP address:= 200.143.28.19 02:37, 17 June 2007 (UTC)
Suggestions - Split into sections 1) header, 2) introduction, 3) modern formats, 4) historical formats, 5) other formats - Standardize the information for each format to include 1) format name, 2) common file extension, 3) date introduced, 4) last updated, 5) International standards, 6) demographics (raster/vecotor, color supported/color depth bits/alpha supported, ... and a link to Wikipedia page for it - Put those into tables with sortible columns
June 2008
If anyone is updating, please include some information about "565" image formats. Thus far, the only info I've found is in forums, from which I've gleaned that it is apparently a format suited to mobile devices. More I can't say. It seems the information would fit in well with this article if anyone knows anything.
Also, links to conversion programs would be welcome.
[moved here from top of page -- Elphion ( talk) 07:10, 26 September 2012 (UTC)
Add .PSD? ZenMasterThis ( talk) 00:30, 18 September 2009 (UTC)
Imagemagick, libtiff utility programs, netpbm, pngtools, jpegtran, etc...
—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 199.253.16.1 ( talk) 22:43, 8 May 2007 (UTC).
The introduction makes no mention of vector formats or voxels. Rewrite it? (Making sure nobody screams)
If there are kinds of formats i'm ignorant of, please enlighten me. — Pandion auk 01:06, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
The picture comparison is a good idea, but it's not very effective right now: the two images compared have been shrunk by about 50% in each direction, so the artifacts introduced in the second one aren't apparent unless the image is clicked on and displayed full size.
Also, it doesn't make sense that the "lossy" example is saved in the lossless PNG format instead of JPEG. It might be better to use a very extreme example of lossy compression since the difference isn't that noticeable. Kahlil88 ( talk) 15:43, 15 June 2009 (UTC)
I also note Graphics file format summary. Devil's advocate: do these two pages serve two different purposes? — Jon Dowland 14:59, 15 September 2005 (UTC)
I was wondering if putting in other files types as in like photoshop types and lesser known types is a good idea. As a side note should the camera information be there as cameras will change over time and alot of the words used to describe that info sound a bit like weasel words. -- ××× jijin+machina | Chat Me!××× — 01:50, 15 September 2005 (UTC)
Also:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JPEG_XR
&
http://www.openexr.com/
207.148.174.154 (
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05:40, 4 September 2010 (UTC)
would .dgn count? it is used by Bentley Microstation and there is a 2d and a 3d version TheFIST ( talk) 13:41, 28 February 2014 (UTC)
Is there any kind-of criteria for which filetypes should be listed here? Currently they're all raster. I'd add vector but I don't know what the principal author's intention is. If this is to be a comparison of bitmap image formats, I'd suggest renaming the article to indicate this.
On the subject of the article's title, it seems that comparison of graphics file formats might be more appropriate, in line with the category Graphics file formats. — Jon Dowland 14:55, 15 September 2005 (UTC)
The heading heirarchy puts individual bitmap formats at the same level as all vector formats. It also says nothing about deep-bitmaps (three dimensional, like DICOM — w/ voxels). I suggest:
— Pandion auk 01:02, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
I'm going to go ahead and reorganize the article now. Feel free to revert it if you think you have a good reason and are willing to debate it, but explain why you do so on the talk page, please. -- Pandion auk 02:34, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
— 212.222.128.110 17:55, October 24, 2005 (PST)
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Shouldn't EPS be listed among the formats here? I find professionally it's the more dominant format used. Hoshq 19:13, 24 January 2007 (UTC) Also shouldn't there be a DDS? Araknos ( talk) 21:08, 3 October 2010 (UTC)
Which formats are the oldest? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.161.122.193 ( talk) 07:53, 10 March 2008 (UTC)
(referencing this discussion on several related pages)
Currently our practice is to name articles on image file formats after the full official name of the file format, which is frequently an expansion of the acronym, such as Graphics Interchange Format. However, I would argue that for many of these articles, the full name is much more rarely used than the file extension to describe the format. For people who haven't heard the name, the name misleadingly sounds as though it describes a class of formats, rather than a particular one. We're also currently quite inconsistent, with articles with various titles such as Graphics Interchange Format, BMP file format, and JPEG.
Wikipedia:Naming conventions (common names) advises as a general rule to "[u]se the most common name of a person or thing that does not conflict with the names of other people or things." While the shortest possible title (e.g. GIF) would conflict with the names of other topics, I'm instead proposing a move to a title that would be both specific and easily recognizable by a greater proportion of the readership, such as one of the following:
A similar move might be proposed for other articles like:
I don't have a strong opinion in either direction, but what is important is that we make a conscious decision about how articles about file formats are named, and apply it consistently. What do you think? Dcoetzee 00:45, 25 October 2008 (UTC)
I came on Wikipedia for this exact reason: I wanted to check which file formats support transparency. This page does not contain that information, so please add it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.91.150.118 ( talk) 19:31, 15 March 2009 (UTC)
Does this page look familiar to anyone? http://www.acasystems.com/en/web-thumb-activex/faq-image-format.htm Sandcat01 ( talk) 22:40, 27 July 2009 (UTC)
As followers of nVidia and ATI know, hardware and software have been developed to take advantage of 3D still images in the JPS and PNS formats. H3D also exists (though I could not find any foundational documents for it). MPO is a standard proposed by Fuji. MPO is also used on Sony cameras. If anyone else has more information, please add it to the new section. I have no doubt that more hardware will emerge to take advantage of 3D image formats, so I think it deserves its own section.
LaVieEntiere ( talk) 06:35, 2 October 2009 (UTC)
There is also an article "Vector graphics markup language". It is essentially a fairly comprehensive list of 2D and 3D vector formats. Therefore, it is overlapping with this article. I suggest to merge the content "Vector graphics markup language" in this article, and redirect it to here. Any objections? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Karloman2 ( talk • contribs) 01:03, 4 April 2011 (UTC)
The article now has two types of image file formats: raster and vector. There are a number of formats that contain both raster and vector classified under vector, e.g. PDF, PPT. (Typically page description languages.) These are not vector formats. The table at the bottom solves this with the type "compound".
I suggest to introduce the type "compound" and clean out the vector formats. This would make the article and the table more consistent.
Comments?-- Karloman2 ( talk) 17:38, 1 December 2011 (UTC)
I think if you look carefully at the list *many* of the "vector" formats (WMF for example) support some sort of embedded raster. Should they all be moved under compound? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 140.32.183.252 ( talk) 15:03, 6 November 2015 (UTC)
I’m trying to send my documents to payments@rewardscasino.com Betsykotak ( talk) 16:27, 27 September 2019 (UTC)
This seems grammatically incorrect: "This is why easier alternatives become popular currently, e.g. IFF-RGFX". Also, this last sentence sounds like a personal opinion. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.140.188.38 ( talk) 04:23, 26 September 2012 (UTC)
There should be a section about .ico files
I think they're just BMPs with extra data in the header. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.61.67.253 ( talk) 23:57, 29 March 2016 (UTC)
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Any reason AVIF isn't here? I think At least the HEIF section should mention HEIC and AVIF. -- Vonfraginoff ( talk) 12:20, 25 December 2020 (UTC)
The format itself is relatively new, about a year old. It's file sizes are similar to PNG, but compresses and decompresses much faster.
Here's the Wikipedia page about it. 63.249.39.68 ( talk) 07:42, 16 January 2023 (UTC)
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The title says it all. KSM-2501ZX, IP address:= 200.143.28.19 02:37, 17 June 2007 (UTC)
Suggestions - Split into sections 1) header, 2) introduction, 3) modern formats, 4) historical formats, 5) other formats - Standardize the information for each format to include 1) format name, 2) common file extension, 3) date introduced, 4) last updated, 5) International standards, 6) demographics (raster/vecotor, color supported/color depth bits/alpha supported, ... and a link to Wikipedia page for it - Put those into tables with sortible columns
June 2008
If anyone is updating, please include some information about "565" image formats. Thus far, the only info I've found is in forums, from which I've gleaned that it is apparently a format suited to mobile devices. More I can't say. It seems the information would fit in well with this article if anyone knows anything.
Also, links to conversion programs would be welcome.
[moved here from top of page -- Elphion ( talk) 07:10, 26 September 2012 (UTC)
Add .PSD? ZenMasterThis ( talk) 00:30, 18 September 2009 (UTC)
Imagemagick, libtiff utility programs, netpbm, pngtools, jpegtran, etc...
—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 199.253.16.1 ( talk) 22:43, 8 May 2007 (UTC).
The introduction makes no mention of vector formats or voxels. Rewrite it? (Making sure nobody screams)
If there are kinds of formats i'm ignorant of, please enlighten me. — Pandion auk 01:06, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
The picture comparison is a good idea, but it's not very effective right now: the two images compared have been shrunk by about 50% in each direction, so the artifacts introduced in the second one aren't apparent unless the image is clicked on and displayed full size.
Also, it doesn't make sense that the "lossy" example is saved in the lossless PNG format instead of JPEG. It might be better to use a very extreme example of lossy compression since the difference isn't that noticeable. Kahlil88 ( talk) 15:43, 15 June 2009 (UTC)
I also note Graphics file format summary. Devil's advocate: do these two pages serve two different purposes? — Jon Dowland 14:59, 15 September 2005 (UTC)
I was wondering if putting in other files types as in like photoshop types and lesser known types is a good idea. As a side note should the camera information be there as cameras will change over time and alot of the words used to describe that info sound a bit like weasel words. -- ××× jijin+machina | Chat Me!××× — 01:50, 15 September 2005 (UTC)
Also:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JPEG_XR
&
http://www.openexr.com/
207.148.174.154 (
talk)
05:40, 4 September 2010 (UTC)
would .dgn count? it is used by Bentley Microstation and there is a 2d and a 3d version TheFIST ( talk) 13:41, 28 February 2014 (UTC)
Is there any kind-of criteria for which filetypes should be listed here? Currently they're all raster. I'd add vector but I don't know what the principal author's intention is. If this is to be a comparison of bitmap image formats, I'd suggest renaming the article to indicate this.
On the subject of the article's title, it seems that comparison of graphics file formats might be more appropriate, in line with the category Graphics file formats. — Jon Dowland 14:55, 15 September 2005 (UTC)
The heading heirarchy puts individual bitmap formats at the same level as all vector formats. It also says nothing about deep-bitmaps (three dimensional, like DICOM — w/ voxels). I suggest:
— Pandion auk 01:02, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
I'm going to go ahead and reorganize the article now. Feel free to revert it if you think you have a good reason and are willing to debate it, but explain why you do so on the talk page, please. -- Pandion auk 02:34, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
— 212.222.128.110 17:55, October 24, 2005 (PST)
Welcome to Wikipedia. We invite everyone to contribute constructively to our encyclopedia. Take a look at the welcome page if you would like to learn more about contributing. However, unconstructive edits are considered vandalism. If you continue in this manner you may be blocked from editing without further warning. Please stop, and consider improving rather than damaging the work of others. Thank you. Dfrg.m s c 1 . 2 . 3 11:41, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
Shouldn't EPS be listed among the formats here? I find professionally it's the more dominant format used. Hoshq 19:13, 24 January 2007 (UTC) Also shouldn't there be a DDS? Araknos ( talk) 21:08, 3 October 2010 (UTC)
Which formats are the oldest? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.161.122.193 ( talk) 07:53, 10 March 2008 (UTC)
(referencing this discussion on several related pages)
Currently our practice is to name articles on image file formats after the full official name of the file format, which is frequently an expansion of the acronym, such as Graphics Interchange Format. However, I would argue that for many of these articles, the full name is much more rarely used than the file extension to describe the format. For people who haven't heard the name, the name misleadingly sounds as though it describes a class of formats, rather than a particular one. We're also currently quite inconsistent, with articles with various titles such as Graphics Interchange Format, BMP file format, and JPEG.
Wikipedia:Naming conventions (common names) advises as a general rule to "[u]se the most common name of a person or thing that does not conflict with the names of other people or things." While the shortest possible title (e.g. GIF) would conflict with the names of other topics, I'm instead proposing a move to a title that would be both specific and easily recognizable by a greater proportion of the readership, such as one of the following:
A similar move might be proposed for other articles like:
I don't have a strong opinion in either direction, but what is important is that we make a conscious decision about how articles about file formats are named, and apply it consistently. What do you think? Dcoetzee 00:45, 25 October 2008 (UTC)
I came on Wikipedia for this exact reason: I wanted to check which file formats support transparency. This page does not contain that information, so please add it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.91.150.118 ( talk) 19:31, 15 March 2009 (UTC)
Does this page look familiar to anyone? http://www.acasystems.com/en/web-thumb-activex/faq-image-format.htm Sandcat01 ( talk) 22:40, 27 July 2009 (UTC)
As followers of nVidia and ATI know, hardware and software have been developed to take advantage of 3D still images in the JPS and PNS formats. H3D also exists (though I could not find any foundational documents for it). MPO is a standard proposed by Fuji. MPO is also used on Sony cameras. If anyone else has more information, please add it to the new section. I have no doubt that more hardware will emerge to take advantage of 3D image formats, so I think it deserves its own section.
LaVieEntiere ( talk) 06:35, 2 October 2009 (UTC)
There is also an article "Vector graphics markup language". It is essentially a fairly comprehensive list of 2D and 3D vector formats. Therefore, it is overlapping with this article. I suggest to merge the content "Vector graphics markup language" in this article, and redirect it to here. Any objections? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Karloman2 ( talk • contribs) 01:03, 4 April 2011 (UTC)
The article now has two types of image file formats: raster and vector. There are a number of formats that contain both raster and vector classified under vector, e.g. PDF, PPT. (Typically page description languages.) These are not vector formats. The table at the bottom solves this with the type "compound".
I suggest to introduce the type "compound" and clean out the vector formats. This would make the article and the table more consistent.
Comments?-- Karloman2 ( talk) 17:38, 1 December 2011 (UTC)
I think if you look carefully at the list *many* of the "vector" formats (WMF for example) support some sort of embedded raster. Should they all be moved under compound? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 140.32.183.252 ( talk) 15:03, 6 November 2015 (UTC)
I’m trying to send my documents to payments@rewardscasino.com Betsykotak ( talk) 16:27, 27 September 2019 (UTC)
This seems grammatically incorrect: "This is why easier alternatives become popular currently, e.g. IFF-RGFX". Also, this last sentence sounds like a personal opinion. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.140.188.38 ( talk) 04:23, 26 September 2012 (UTC)
There should be a section about .ico files
I think they're just BMPs with extra data in the header. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.61.67.253 ( talk) 23:57, 29 March 2016 (UTC)
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Any reason AVIF isn't here? I think At least the HEIF section should mention HEIC and AVIF. -- Vonfraginoff ( talk) 12:20, 25 December 2020 (UTC)
The format itself is relatively new, about a year old. It's file sizes are similar to PNG, but compresses and decompresses much faster.
Here's the Wikipedia page about it. 63.249.39.68 ( talk) 07:42, 16 January 2023 (UTC)