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==Introduction==
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.
==List of supported formats==
* [[choosing image formats|Image formats]]
** [[JPEG 2000]]
** [[GIF]]
** [[JPEG]]
** [[PNG]]
** [[SVG]]

* [[Ebooks|eBook formats]]
** [[DJVU]]
** [[PDF]]

* General formats
** XML
** [[SQLite]] (a lightweight relational database that is included in Python 2.5)
** Gnu gdbm (supported by [[Python]]'s dbm module)
** Berkeley db version 4.3.0.1 (supported by [[Python]]'s bsddb module)

* Compression formats
** Uncompressed (this is listed because the JFFS2 filesystem on the OLPC will compress all compressable files)
** GNU Zip (supported by [[Python]]'s zlib module)

[[Category:File formats]]
[[Category:Python]]

Revision as of 23:01, 13 June 2008