Files created in different applications have different formats. To allow transfer between applications, files can be adapted or converted from one file type to another. Common examples include converting Word documents to PDF, which makes the file compatible with more devices while maintaining a smaller file size. The process of converting file types changes the original format into a new format that can be opened by other applications.

1. How are files adapted to allow
transfer between different
applications ?
–Examples
–Different file/software types
–Adapting Files

2. Examples.

3. Different file types
• As you work on the computer you use different software
applications to create and update files (word documents,
spreadsheets, etc.)
• Files created in different applications are formatted
differently
• There are many similar programs that do the same thing.
E.g.
Microsoft Word = Open office Text document

4. Different file/software types
• Computers running Windows can save files with long file
names followed by a dot and a three character file
extension
E.g.
doc.- Word Documents
gif.- An image file (GIF format)‫‏‬
jpg.- An image file (JPEGformat)
ppt- PowerPoint Presentation

5. Converting Files
• Basically you are changing file types into other file types
• And a perfect example of this is a Word Document into a
PDF(Portable Document Format)‫‏‬

6. Word to PDF
• Possibly one of the most used
conversions.
• Is where you change a Word Document
into a PDF
• The reason you would want to do this as a PDF is
compatible with most computers in the world and its
small (doesn’t take up much memory)‫‏‬
• You must download a file called “doPDF” to do this
operation