From the course: Managing Conversions Between Adobe CC and Microsoft Office

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Understand graphics differences

Understand graphics differences

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Understand graphics differences

- [Voiceover] For most versions of Office and Creative Cloud, or Creative Suites, there are really only two graphic file formats that can move back and forth fairly seamlessly, and those are JPEG and PNG files. JPEGs we're all pretty familiar with. We see so many JPEGs on the Internet. PNGs are slightly more sophisticated version of a Paint type of graphic, but a PNG also has sharp edges, so it's great for vectors and it can include transparency, so if you want to see through to something behind the graphic, you'd want to go with the PNG format. And most of the Office programs and the Adobe programs can all export to either one of these formats. Now there's also a second tier, another kind of file format that moves pretty well, I'd say between most of the time rather than all the time, and those are TIFF, EPS, PDF, and in recent versions of Office, they've supported native Photoshop files, PSD files, as well. Kind of interesting, this surprised me as I was researching this title, that…

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