The list below explains the most frequent abbreviations mentioned in this portal.

AI	Adobe Illustrator
ATA	Air Transport Association
ASCII	American Standard Code for Information Interchange
BMP	Bitmap
CAD	Computer Aided Design
CALS	Continuous Acquisition & Life-Cycle Support
CCITT	Comité Consultatif International de Télégraphie et de  Téléphonie
CGM	Computer Graphics Metafile
CMYK	Cyan Magenta Yellow Black
Dpi	Dots per Inch
DTP	Desktop Publishing
DXF	Drawing Exchange Format
EPS	Encapsulated Postscript
EPSF	Encapsulated Postscript File
GREXCHANGE	GRaphics EXCHANGE
HPGL	Hewlett Packard Graphics Language
IGES	Initial Graphics Exchange Specification
IGS	File name extension of IGES files
ISO	International Standards Organization
LZW	Lempel, Ziv, Welch (compression algorithm)
MIF	Maker Interchange Format
PCL	Printer Command Language
PCX	Raster format of  ZSoft
PICT	PICTure file
PIP	Petroleum Industry File
PLT	also an abbreviation for HPGL = Plot file
PNG	Portable Network Graphic
PS	PostScript
RGB	Red Green Blue
SAE	Society of Automotive Engineers
SVG	Scalable Vector Format
TIFF	Tagged Image File Format
TXT	Text
VDA	"Verband der deutschen Automobilindustrie"
VDAIS	IGES interface of the VDA
VDC	Virtual Device Coordinates
WMF	Windows Metafile Format