Format

Description

Notes

ANS

Text with Layout

Available if Word2000 or later is installed.

ASC

Text with Layout

Available if Word2000 or later is installed.

AVI

Microsoft Audio/Visual Interleaved

AVS

AVS X image

BMP

Microsoft Windows bitmap

CMYK

Raw cyan, magenta, yellow, and black samples

CUT

DR Halo

DCM

Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) image

Used by the medical community for images like X-rays.

DCX

ZSoft IBM PC multi-page Paintbrush image

DIB

Microsoft Windows Device Independent Bitmap

DIB is a BMP file without the BMP header. Used to support embedded images in compound formats like WMF.

DOC, DOCX

Word Document

Available if Word2000 or later is installed.

DPX

Digital Moving Picture Exchange

EMF

Microsoft Enhanced Metafile (32-bit)

EML

Outlook Express Mail Message

EPDF

Encapsulated Portable Document Format

EPI

Adobe Encapsulated PostScript Interchange format

EPS

Adobe Encapsulated PostScript

EPSF

Adobe Encapsulated PostScript

EPSI

Adobe Encapsulated PostScript Interchange format

EPT

Adobe Encapsulated PostScript Interchange format with TIFF preview

FAX

Group 3 TIFF

See TIFF format. Note that FAX machines use non-square pixels which are 1.5 times wider than they are tall but computer displays use square pixels so FAX images may appear to be narrow unless they are explicitly resized using a resize specification of "150x100%".

FITS

Flexible Image Transport System

FPX

FlashPix Format

GIF

CompuServe Graphics Interchange Format

8-bit RGB PseudoColor with up to 256 palette entires. 

GRAY

Raw gray samples

HPGL

HP-GL plotter language

HTML

Hyper-Text Markup Language

ICO

Microsoft icon

Also known as "ICON".

JBIG

Joint Bi-level Image experts Group file interchange format

JNG

Multiple-image Network Graphics

JPEG in a PNG-style wrapper with transparency. 

JP2

JPEG-2000 JP2 File Format Syntax

JPC

JPEG-2000 Code Stream Syntax

JPEG/JPG

Joint Photographic Experts Group JFIF format

MAT

MATLAB image format

MHTML

Web Archive

Available if Word2000 or later is installed or if HTML2PDF995 is used.

MONO

Bi-level bitmap in least-significant-byte first order

MNG

JPEG Network Graphics

MPEG/MPG

Motion Picture Experts Group file interchange format (version 1)

M2V

Motion Picture Experts Group file interchange format (version 2)

MTV

MTV Raytracing image format

OTB

On-the-air Bitmap

P7

Xv's Visual Schnauzer thumbnail format

PAL

16bit/pixel interleaved YUV

PALM

Palm pixmap

PBM

Portable bitmap format (black and white)

PCD

Photo CD

The maximum resolution written is 768x512 pixels since larger images require huffman compression (which is not supported).

PCDS

Photo CD

Decode with the sRGB color tables.

PCL

HP Page Control Language

For output to HP laser printers. Write only.

PCT

Apple Macintosh QuickDraw/PICT

PCX

ZSoft IBM PC Paintbrush file

PDB

Palm Database ImageViewer Format

PDF

Portable Document Format

PFA

Postscript Type 1 font (ASCII)

Opening as file returns a preview image.

PFB

Postscript Type 1 font (binary)

Opening as file returns a preview image.

PGM

Portable graymap format (gray scale)

PICON

Personal Icon

PICT

Apple Macintosh QuickDraw/PICT file

PIX

Alias/Wavefront RLE image format

PNG

Portable Network Graphics

PPM

Portable pixmap format (color)

PPT, PPTX

PowerPoint Presentation

Available if PowerPoint 2000 or later is installed.

PS

Adobe PostScript file

PS2

Adobe Level II PostScript file

PS3

Adobe Level III PostScript file

PSD

Adobe Photoshop bitmap file

PTIF

Pyramid encoded TIFF

Multi-resolution TIFF containing successively smaller versions of the image down to the size of an icon. The desired sub-image size may be specified when reading via the -size option.

PWP

Seattle File Works multi-image file

RGB

Raw red, green, and blue samples (8 or 16 bits, depending on the image depth)

RLA

Alias/Wavefront image file

RLE

Utah Run length encoded image file

RTF

Rich Text Format

Available if Word2000 or later is installed.

SCT

Scitex Continuous Tone Picture

SFW

Seattle File Works image

SGI

Irix RGB image

SUN

SUN Rasterfile

TGA

Truevision Targa image

Also known as formats "ICB", "VDA", and "VST"

TIFF

Tagged Image File Format

Also known as "TIF"

TIM

PSX TIM file

TXT

Raw text file

VICAR

VICAR rasterfile format

VIFF

Khoros Visualization Image File Format

WBMP

Wireless bitmap

Support for uncompressed monochrome only.

WK4

Lotus 1-2-3

Available if Word2000 or later is installed. Requires Word Import Converter*

WPD

Word Perfect

Available if Word2000 or later is installed. Requires Word Import Converter*

WPG

Word Perfect Graphics File

WPS

Microsoft Works

Available if Word2000 or later is installed.

WRI

Microsoft Write

Available if Word2000 or later is installed.

XBM

X Windows system bitmap, black and white only

Used by the X Windows System to store monochrome icons.

XCF

GIMP image

XLS, XLSX

Excel

Available if Excel2000 or later is installed.

XML

Extensible Markup Language

See Below

XPM

X Windows system pixmap

Also known as "PM". Used by the X Windows System to store color icons.

XWD

X Windows system window dump

Used by the X Windows System to save/display screen dumps.

How can I run OmniFormat on Systems with limited Memory?
Starting with version 2.55, the options panel offers High (default), Medium and Low Memory Usage settings. If you have 512 MB or more RAM, then High is recommended. Otherwise, you may need to select Medium or Low.

How do I convert Office documents when running OmniFormat as a Service?
When running as a OmniFormat as a Service you may need to change the logon account from Local System to Local Administrator for the OmniFormat Service.

XML Conversion
OmniFormat may be used to dynamically convert XML data to any output format supported by OmniFormat including PDF. A Microsoft Word file is used as a template to supply layout information. OmniFormat replaces fields in the Word template with values specified in the XML file. Next it converts the document to the final format.

Sample (acme.xml):

<ORDER
OutputFile="c:\invoices\acme corporation.pdf"
WordTemplate="c:\templates\invoice template.doc"
CompanyName="Acme Corporation Inc."
Address1="345 Garden Avenue"
Address2="San Gorge, CA 94301"
Item1="Widgets"
Quantity1="2"
Price1="500"
Item2=""
Quantity2=""
Price2=""
Total="500"
/>

OmniFormat will process acme.xml by
1. Substitution of the name-value pairs into "c:\templates\invoice template.doc" followed by
2. Conversion to c:\invoices\acme corporation.pdf. The template file is not modified by the process. "OutputFile" and "WordTemplate" are reserved names.

Note: PdfEdit995 may be used to batch convert Microsoft Office documents to PDF.

How is HTML processed by OmniFormat and HTML2PDF995?
OmniFormat uses Word to convert from HTML and MHTML by default. HTML2PDF995 uses the Microsoft Internet Explorer control. It is faster and more accurate than Word for rendering and printing of HTML and MHTML. Adding "Use HTML2PDF995=1" (Do not include the quotes) to the [OmniFormat] section of ..\pdf995\res\pdf995.ini will configure OmniFormat to use HTML2PDF995 instead. In addition, HTML2PDF995 may be called from other applications or the command line to convert HTML to PDF by passing the full path or URL of the desired file to be converted.

Header text, footer text and margins should be specified in the Internet Explorer-File-Page Setup dialog.

What do I do if I cannot convert XLS to PDF?
Provided Excel is installed, if Omniformat cannot covnert XLS to PDF, it is unable to find the PDF995 printer. Either set PDF995 as the default system printer or add

System on=on

to the [Parameters] section of pdf995\res\pdf995.ini. The default value is "on". Try changing to "en" or the corresponding word in the Operating System's default language.

Source
OmniFormat contains a partial version of ImageMagick installed in c:\omniformat\engine. ImageMagick comes with absolutely no warranty. ImageMagick is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions. For more details: ImageMagick.

The OmniFormat Optical Character Recognition Module comes with absolutely no warranty. This software contains a partial version of Tesseract Open Source OCR installed in ..\omniformat\ocr. Tesseract Open Source OCR comes with absolutely no warranty.