PerfectTablePlan exports information in 7 major forms:
• | CSV (Comma Separated Value ) - A text file readable by Microsoft Excel. Columns and rows are delimited (separated) by commas and carriage returns, respectively. " and , characters are quoted. |
• | Delimited text data - A text file with the user's choice of delimiters. Useful for importing into a wide range of applications. Excel CSV is a special form of delimited text data. |
• | vCard file - vCard files be imported into most applications with address books, including Outlook, Palm Pilot desktop and Apple Address Book. |
• | Raster image (e.g. .PNG, .JPG and .BMP) - An image described as a 2 dimension array of coloured cells (pixels) that can be read by many graphics packages, such as Photoshop and Microsoft Paint. |
• | Vector image (e.g. PDF) - An image described in terms of primitive shapes, e.g. a circle of a given radius and position, that can be read by some drawing packages such as Adobe Acrobat. |
• | HTML text (e.g. .HTML) - A textual representation with layout and formatting that can be read into a web browser, such as Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firebird or Safari. Many wordprocessors, such as Microsoft Word, can also read HTML. |
• | plain text (e.g. .TXT) - A textual representation without layout and formatting that can be read into a wide range of applications. |
Different formats are useful for different things. However there are important things to bear in mind when deciding whether to use raster or vector images:
• | Raster images can degrade when resized, for example when printed to poster size. Vector images can normally be resized without problems. |
• | Raster images are much harder to edit than vector images, because a table is drawn as an array of many separate cells rather than a circle or a rectangle. |
• | Vector image formats are less widely supported than raster formats and can therefore be harder to print or modify. |
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