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Data and File Formats Standards

There are large number of formats and standards available for multimedia system.

Let us discuss about the following file formats:
 Rich-Text Format (RTF)
 Tagged Image file Format (TIFF)
 Resource Image File Format (RIFF)
 Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI)
 Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG)
 Audio Video Interleaved (AVI) Indeo file format
 TWAIN

Rich Text Format

This format extends the range of information from one word processor
application or DTP system to another. The key format information carried across
in RTF documents are given below:

Character Set: It determines the characters that supports in a particular
implementation. Font Table: This lists all fonts used. Then, they are mapped to
the fonts available in receiving application for displaying text.

Color Table: It lists the colors used in the documents. The color table then mapped
for display by receiving application to the nearer set of colors available to that
applications.

Document Formatting: Document margins and paragraph indents are specified
here.

Section Formatting: Section breaks are specified to define separation of groups
of paragraphs.

Paragraph Formatting: It specifies style sheds. It specifies control characters for
specifying paragraph justification, tab positions, left, right and first indents
relative to document margins, and the spacing between paragraphs.

General Formatting: It includes footnotes, annotations, bookmarks and pictures.
Character Formatting: It includes bold, italic, underline (continuous, dotted or
word), strike through, shadow text, outline text, and hidden text.

Special Characters: It includes hyphens, spaces, backslashes, underscore and so
on