Image or Graphic File Formats part-2

Image or Graphic File Formats

DLG

DLG

DLG stands for Digital Line Graph. This is a vector format for storing geographical data, such as mountain contours, etc.

JFIF

The full form of JFIF is JPEG' File Interchange Format. It is commonly known as JPEG and with the file name suffix JPG. The JPEG format was explained earlier.

PNG

PNG

PNG stands for Portable Network Graphics (pronounced as ping"). It was created as a free-of-cost replacement for GIF. GIF cannot be included in commercial software without paying license fees to the owners. PNG handles 1 to 48-bit images, and is a lossless, well-compressed format like GIF. However, it is still not very popular format.

PS

P S

PS is Adobe Systems' Post Script format. Postscript is not an image format, but it is a page description language, originally conceived so that computers could send very accurate page descriptions to laser printers. You can save black and white or even colour pictures as Postscript. However, postscript file size is very large and, therefore it is not a very efficient format. Moreover, it retains the exact shape of the page when printed on a printer containing postscript driver.

EPS

EPS

EPS stands for Encapsulated Postscript file Format. This is a format which can be included in other documents - if your software supports it. It is somewhat similar to the postscript format. It has limited number of English fonts designed by Adobe.

PSD

PSD

PSD is Adobe Photoshop's native format. It stores all of its layers and selection and miscellaneous other image data in this format.

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