Targa Image File: a raster graphics format supporting 8-32 bit color depth with alpha channel. Widely used in game development, video editing, and 3D rendering pipelines.
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File Types
Common file formats, their extensions, descriptions, and typical usage.
Tagged Image File Format: a flexible, adaptable file format for handling raster images. Widely used in publishing, photography, and document scanning.
DefinitionTemporary File: a file created by applications to hold data temporarily during processing. Usually deleted automatically when no longer needed.
DefinitionTom's Obvious, Minimal Language: a configuration file format designed to be easy to read and write. Used by Rust (Cargo.toml), Python (pyproject.toml), and Hugo.
DefinitionBitTorrent Metainfo File: contains metadata about files to be shared via the BitTorrent peer-to-peer protocol including tracker URLs and file hashes.
DefinitionMPEG Transport Stream: a container format for broadcasting and streaming audio, video, and data. Used in digital television (DVB, ATSC), Blu-ray, and HLS streaming.
DefinitionTab-Separated Values: a plain text format using tabs to delimit columns. It avoids CSV quoting issues when data contains commas.
DefinitionTypeScript JSX: a TypeScript file containing JSX syntax, combining TypeScript's type safety with React's component syntax.
DefinitionTrue Audio: a free, real-time lossless audio codec offering fast compression and decompression with good compression ratios.
DefinitionTrueType Font: a font format developed by Apple and Microsoft in the late 1980s. It contains both screen and printer data in a single file and is supported by all operating systems.
DefinitionTimed Text Markup Language: a W3C standard XML-based format for timed text content. Used for broadcast captions and streaming subtitles.
DefinitionPlain Text File: contains unformatted text with no special encoding or markup. It is the most basic and universally compatible file format.
DefinitionConfiguration file for Tailwind CSS, a utility-first CSS framework. Defines content paths, theme customization, and plugin configuration.
DefinitionTool Command Language: a dynamic scripting language used in embedded systems, network testing (Cisco), and as an extension language for applications via the Tk GUI toolkit.
DefinitionA JSON file tracking the current state of Terraform-managed infrastructure. Maps real resources to configuration for drift detection and plan generation.
DefinitionA modern server-side Java template engine for web and standalone environments. Thymeleaf templates are valid HTML that can be previewed in browsers without a server, widely used with Spring Boot.
DefinitionAn extension of GeoJSON that encodes topology, eliminating redundancy and reducing file sizes by up to 80% compared to GeoJSON.
DefinitionTerse RDF Triple Language: a compact, human-readable syntax for writing RDF data using subject-predicate-object triples.
DefinitionA modern template engine for PHP created by the Symfony framework. Twig offers a concise syntax, template inheritance, automatic output escaping, and sandboxing for security.
DefinitionPostScript Type 1 Font: the original Adobe font format for PostScript printers. Officially deprecated by Adobe in 2023 after 30+ years.
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