computer file format
Graphics File Types Word Can Use
White Paper One can insert many popular graphics file formats (file format: The way in which information is stored in a file so that a program can open and save the file. File format is indicated by a three-letter extension after the file name, such as .doc... [26 Apr 2008]
Install a New Font on Your Computer
White Paper If one has downloaded a font that is saved in .zip format, one can "Unzip" it by double-clicking the icon for the font and following the instructions on the screen. Many font packages one downloads from the Internet may be contained in compressed... [26 Apr 2008]
About Microsoft Office Document Imaging
White Paper With Microsoft Office Document Imaging, one can scan paper documents and convert them to digital images that the user can save in Tagged Image File Format (TIFF) or Microsoft Document Imaging Format (MDI) to the computer's hard disk, network... [16 Apr 2008]
Open and Save Files in Formats Supported by Word
White Paper A file format defines the way that information is stored in a file, so that a specific program can open and save that file. A file's format is indicated by a three-letter or four-letter extension after the file name. [16 Apr 2008]
Animating SAS/GRAPH Output - Telling a Story That Changes Over Time
White Paper This paper shows how animated GIFS can be built from simple modifications to the SAS jobs that run every day and deployed using the built-in support for this file format in all the major HTML browsers (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, and so on). [06 Nov 2007]
The DAM Book: Digital Asset Management for Photographers - What Is All This DAM Stuff?
White Paper Adobe Bridge, Camera Raw 3, the new IPTC tools, the Digital Negative (DNG) file format, and cataloging software can bring to integrated digital asset management the same coherence that ICC workflow brought to color management. [10 Oct 2007]
Ximage and WIM Image Format: File-Based Disk Imaging Is a Core Capability of Windows Vista
White Paper XImage and the new WIM image format is a significant enhancement for Windows Vista. And due to the new image-based setup process, desktop deployment takes less than an hour to not only install the computer but also migrate users' state data. [09 Jul 2007]
"Digital black hole" threatens your documents
News The Planets (Preservation and Long-term Access project through Networked Services) consortium will develop a "sustainable framework" to maintain access to digital content after its original storage format has disappeared. [15 Dec 2006]
Mac OS X flaw: US gov adds warning
News The US computer emergency response team (US-Cert) issued an alert last week, reporting a failure in the way OS X handles corrupted disk image files - for Macs, the '.dmg' file format. A disk image file is a digital representation of the contents... [27 Nov 2006]
The A to Z of security
News Antivirus software also works by analysing what apps are trying to do - malicious programs can blow their cover by displaying suspicious patterns of behaviour (such as searching out executable or mail box files in order to propagate) or by... [14 Nov 2006]
Microsoft clashes with Adobe over PDF support
News Microsoft, which last October announced it would support Adobe's PDF format in its forthcoming Office upgrade, has reached an impasse after four months of talks, a Microsoft attorney said on Friday. Adobe has told the world that PDF is an open... [05 Jun 2006]
Microsoft to hunt 'new species' of bugs
News The graphics file format was introduced with Windows 3.0 in early 1990. They overlooked image format files and that is where this WMF issue came in. The critical flaw in the way Windows Meta File (WMF) images are handled, is different to any... [10 Jan 2006]
BlackBerry users warned over malicious images
News An attacker would have to craft a special TIFF, or Tagged Image File Format, to perform the attack, the company said. The security vulnerability was discussed at a computer security conference in Berlin last week. [04 Jan 2006]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Searching for search technology
Comment Ultimately, it should be possible to search across the entirety of a corporation's electronic records, be they stored as emails, databases, web pages, Word files, PDFs or whatever esoteric format the company may be using. [26 Aug 2005]
FBI invites bids for Sentinel project
News Mueller said in February: "What the agent on the street does not have is a user-friendly format for inputting investigative and intelligence information into his or her computer. The bureau on Tuesday announced it had contacted 40 selected... [11 Aug 2005]
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