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==Introduction== |
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Because the OLPC has limited storage and limited RAM, it is not a good idea to support every data format used on regular PCs. It makes more sense to use our PCs to convert data than to put that burden on the OLPC. |
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==List of supported formats== |
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* [[choosing image formats|Image formats]] |
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** [[JPEG 2000]] |
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** [[GIF]] |
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** [[JPEG]] |
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** [[PNG]] |
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** [[SVG]] |
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* [[Ebooks|eBook formats]] |
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** [[DJVU]] |
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** [[PDF]] |
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* General formats |
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** XML |
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** [[SQLite]] (a lightweight relational database that is included in Python 2.5) |
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** Gnu gdbm (supported by [[Python]]'s dbm module) |
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** Berkeley db version 4.3.0.1 (supported by [[Python]]'s bsddb module) |
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* Compression formats |
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** Uncompressed (this is listed because the JFFS2 filesystem on the OLPC will compress all compressable files) |
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** GNU Zip (supported by [[Python]]'s zlib module) |
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[[Category:File formats]] |
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[[Category:Python]] |
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