File formats for electronic communication with the City of Vienna

Non-editable documents

*.PDF 1.3 or *.PDF/A

*.pdf

Text documents

ASCII (coded in ISO-8859-1 or UTF-8)

*.txt

OpenDocument Text

*.odt

Microsoft Word

*.docx, *dotx
until the end of 2021: *.doc, *.dot

Rich Text Format

*.rtf

Spreadsheet documents

OpenDocument spreadsheet file (Open Office 2.0)

*.ods

Microsoft Excel

*.xlsx
until the end of 2021: *.xls

Comma-separated values file (CSV)

*.csv

Graphics files (images)

Graphics Interchange Format (GIF)

*.gif

JPEG images

*.jpg, *.jpeg

Tagged Image Format (TIFF)

*.tif *.tiff

Portable Network Graphic (PNG)

*.png

Presentations

OpenDocument Presentation

*.odp

Microsoft Powerpoint

*.pptx, *.ppsx
until the end of 2021: *.ppt, *.pps

Vector graphics

OpenDocument Drawing (Open Office 2.0)

*.odg

Windows Metafile

*.wmf

Enhanced Metafile

*.emf

CAD-Data

*.dwg, *.dxf

Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG)

*.svg

GIS Data

*.shp, *.dbf, *.prj, *.shx

Compressed files

ZIP

*.zip, *.gz, *.gzip

7zip-Archive

*.7z

Calendar and contacts

vCard

*.vcf

iCalendar

*.ics

Web

HTML

*.html, *.htm

XML

*.xml (except internet pages and Excel 2003 XML spreadsheets)

Certificates und encrypted E-Mail

Certificates

*.p7c, *.p10, *.p12, *.der, *.cer, *.crt, *.pem

encrypted content, PGP-signatures

*.asc, *.asic, *.asice