What Document Files Do You Use?

[Ninurta]

@Ninurta

I hadn't even thought about cross-platform file formats like you are talking about, but it is good to know that text and PDF files are more or less universal. I don't know if DOC or DOCx will be a good replacement for RTF-formatted files or if they will work well across platforms.

You mentioned the BMP and PNG file formats for raster graphics. I prefer BMP as a higher quality standard over JPG. For vector graphics, I always used EPS with my graphics programs; however, the SVG format is common on the internet. PDF can incorporate vector graphics, so it covers text and both types of image graphics in one document. Also, PDFs are standard for forms, contracts, instruction guides, etc.

It's the program I use ( open Office) which is cross-platform, rater than the file formats themselves. They release versions for at least Windows and Linux - I don't know if there is a MAC version, but I suppose their is. I've never had any practical use for Macs other than one single class in college, so I've never used them much.

The encryption software I use is also cross-platform, with cversions for Windows, MacOS, and most flavors of Linux. It's called "VeraCrypt", and the container files it creates can be read in any of those platforms with the appropriate software version, so that everything I encrypted in Windows can still be accessed in Linux.

I stick to raster graphics exclusively. I know Wikimedia makes heavy use of SVG vector graphics, but they usually have raster forms of the same images available for download as well, so I use those. I don't have any software that will view vector formats of convert the vector formats to raster formats, so I just download the raster forms to begin with.

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