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  2. JPEG - Wikipedia

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    JPEG. JPEG (/ ˈdʒeɪpɛɡ / JAY-peg, short for Joint Photographic Experts Group) [2] is a commonly used method of lossy compression for digital images, particularly for those images produced by digital photography. The degree of compression can be adjusted, allowing a selectable tradeoff between storage size and image quality.

  3. List of file signatures - Wikipedia

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    List of file signatures. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. This is a list of file signatures, data used to identify or verify the content of a file. Such signatures are also known as magic numbers or Magic Bytes.

  4. Image file format - Wikipedia

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    Image file format. An image file format is a file format for a digital image. There are many formats that can be used, such as JPEG, PNG, and GIF. Most formats up until 2022 were for storing 2D images, not 3D ones. The data stored in an image file format may be compressed or uncompressed. If the data is compressed, it may be done so using lossy ...

  5. Comparison of graphics file formats - Wikipedia

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    image/x-portable-bitmap. Yes. PCX. ZSoft PC Paintbrush File. ZSoft Corporation. .pcx, .pcc, .dcx. image/x-pcx. Dated rle packed indexed image format, used in some early 3d shooting games like Unreal Tournament as it takes up very little space and is easy to decode.

  6. Microsoft Word - Wikipedia

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    Microsoft Word is a word processor program developed by Microsoft.It was first released on October 25, 1983, [10] under the name Multi-Tool Word for Xenix systems. [11] [12] [13] Subsequent versions were later written for several other platforms including: IBM PCs running DOS (1983), Apple Macintosh running the Classic Mac OS (1985), AT&T UNIX PC (1985), Atari ST (1988), OS/2 (1989), Microsoft ...

  7. Media type - Wikipedia

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    Media type. In information and communications technology, a media type, [1][2] content type[2][3] or MIME type[1][4][5] is a two-part identifier for file formats and content formats . Their purpose is comparable to filename extensions and uniform type identifiers, in that they identify the intended data format.

  8. World file - Wikipedia

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    Definition. Graphical view of world files parameters and computed values of the four first upper left pixels of an image. The generic meaning of the six parameters in a world file (as defined by Esri [1]) is: Line 1: A: pixel size in the x -direction in map units/pixel. Line 2: D: rotation about y -axis.

  9. JPEG File Interchange Format - Wikipedia

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    The JPEG File Interchange Format (JFIF) is an image file format standard published as ITU-T Recommendation T.871 and ISO/IEC 10918-5. It defines supplementary specifications for the container format that contains the image data encoded with the JPEG algorithm. The base specifications for a JPEG container format are defined in Annex B of the ...