This is Hacker Public Radio Episode 3,805 for Friday the 3rd of March 2023.
Today's show is entitled Document File Formats on Wikipedia.
It is hosted by Archir 72 and is about 12 minutes long.
It carries a clean flag.
The summary is Document File Format, a continuation of content format.
Hello, this is Archir 72.
Welcome to Hacker Public Radio.
In this episode, I'm continuing to go through a Wikipedia article on content format.
To recap, there has been a countless number of content formats throughout
history.
The following are examples of some common content formats and content format categories
covering sensor experience, model and language used for encoding information.
The first item in this list is Document File Format.
A Document File Format is a text or binary file format storing documents on a storage
media, especially used by computers.
There currently exists a multitude of incompatible document file formats.
Examples of XML based open standards are Doc Book, XHTML, and more recently the ISO IEC standards
Open Document ISO 26302626 and Open Office XML ISO 29500-2008.
In 1993, the ITU-T tried to establish a standard for Document File Formats, known as Open
Document Architecture, which was supposed to replace all competing document file formats.
It is described by the ITU-T DocumentT.411 through T.421, which are equivalent to ISO 8613.
It did not succeed.
Page language descriptions such as PostScript and PDF have become de facto standards for
documents that a typical user should only be able to create and read not edit.
In 2001, a series of ISO IEC standards for PDF began to be published, including the specification
for PDF itself.
ISO 32,000, HTML is the most used and open international standard, and is also used as
a Document File Format.
It has also become ISO IEC standard ISO 154445 2000.
The default binary file format used by Microsoft Word.doc has become widespread defect of standard
for office documents, but it is a proprietary format, and is not always fully supported
by other Word processors.
Common Document File Formats are as follows.
ASCII and UTFA, which are plain text formats.
ASCII is abbreviated from American Standard Code for Information Interchange.
It is a character encoding standard for electronic communication.
UTFA represents text and computers, telecommunications, equipment, and other devices.
UTFA is a variable length character encoding standard, used for electronic communication,
defined by the Unicode Standard.
The name is derived from Unicode Transformation Format 8bit.
Amiga Guide is a Hypertext Document File Format designed for the Amiga.
files are stored in ASCII, so it is possible to read and edit a file without the need
for special software.
Next is.doc.doc is a file name extension used for Word processing documents stored
on Microsoft's proprietary Microsoft Word binary file format.
Microsoft has used extensions since 1983, and specifications have been available since
2008 under the Open's specification of promise, which is a promise by Microsoft published
in September 2006 not to assert its patents and certain conditions against implementation
of certain list of specifications.
Next up is.djvu pronounced as the French word deja vu, and it is a computer file format
designed primarily to store scanned documents, especially those
containing a combination of text, line drawings, indexed color images, and photographs.
Next is.doc book, which is a semantic markup language for technical documentation.
It was originally intended for writing.
Technical documents related to computer hardware and software.
But can be used in any other sort of documentation.
Next up is HTML with the extension of.html or.htm.
It is an open standard ISO from 2000.
Next up is fiction book, which is an open XML based ebook format, which originated in
game popularity in Russia.
Fiction book files have the FB2 file name extension.
Some readers also support zip compressed fiction book files.
Next format is marked down, which is a lightweight markup language for creating formatted
text using a plain text editor.
John Gruber and Aaron Schwartz created marked down in 2004 as a markup language that is
appealing to human readers in its source code form.
Next up is open office XML, which is a zips XML based file format developed by Microsoft
for representing spreadsheets, charts, presentations, and word processing documents.
Next is the open document format for office applications, abbreviated ODF.
It is also known as open document and is an open file format for word processing documents
spreadsheets, presentations, and graphics using zip compressed XML files.
Next is open office XML, and it is an open XML based file format developed as an open
community effort by Son Microsystems in 2002.
The open source software application suite, open office.org, 1.x, and star office 6 and 7,
use the format as their native default file format.
Next is OXPS, which is the open XML paper specification, and is an open specification
for page description language and a fixed document format.
Microsoft developed it as an XML paper specification.
In June 2009, ECMA International adopted it as an international standard ECMA388.
Next up is Palm Doc, abbreviated PDB, and is a container format for record databases
in Palm OS, Garland OS, and Access Linux platform.
It is structured, similar to PRC's resource databases.
The Palm Doc eBook format is a special version of the PDB format.
Next up is PDF, which already know is a portable document format, standardized as ISO 32,000,
is a file format developed by Adobe in 1992 to present documents, including text formatting
and images, and a matter independent of application software, hardware, and operating systems.
A subcategory of PDF is PDF, forward slash E, which is an ISO ISO 24507-108.
It is an ISO standard published in 2008 for document management, engineering document format
using PDF, part 1.
There is also PDF, forward slash UA, stands for Accessibility, and PDF, forward slash VT,
which is variable data and transactional printing.
Next we have PostScript, which is a page description language, and the electronic publishing
desktop publishing realm.
It is a dynamically typed concatenative programming language that was created at the Adobe
System.
By John Warnock, Charles Geshe, Doug Brots, Ed Taft, and Bill Paxon from 1982 to 1984.
Next we have Rich Text Format, which is a proprietary document file format with published
specification developed by Microsoft Corporation from 1987 until 2008 for cross platform
document and interchange with Microsoft products.
Next is symbolic link, SYLK, it is a Microsoft file format, typically used to exchange
data between applications, specifically spreadsheets, SYLK files can eventually have
a.SLK suffix, composed of only displayable, antsy characters, it can be easily created
in process by other applications such as databases.
Next is scalable vector graphics, SVG, it is an XML based vector image format for defining
two dimensional graphics, having support for interactivity and animation.
The SVG specification is an open standard developed by the World Wide Web consortium since
1999.
Next we have Text, TX, stylized with the system, ST, subscript, EX, is a type setting system
which was designed and written by computer scientists and Stanford University professor,
Donald Nuth, and first released in 1978.
Next we have Text and Coding Initiative, TEI, it is a text, centric community of practice
in the academic field of digital humanities operating continuously since the 1980s.
This is TRAF, short-for-type setter RRAF, it is the major component of a document processing
system developed by Bell Labs for the UNIX operating system, TRAF and the related NRAF
were developed from the original RRAF.
Then we have UNiform Office format, sometimes known as Unified Office Format.
It is an open standard for office applications developed in China, it includes word processing
presentation and spreadsheet modules and is made of GUI, API and Format specifications.
And last there is word perfect, which is a word processing application now owned by Karel
with a long history of multiple personal computer platforms.
With the height of its popularity in the 1980s and early in 1990s, it was the dominant
player in the word processor market, displacing the prior market leader, word star.
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