Questions tagged [file-format]

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How can I cut the margin of a PDF or djvu file for optimal booklet printing?

I have a file which has exaggerated margins. This forces me to print it as a booklet, otherwise I feel I'm waisting paper (a good size of the font allows me to do so). But if I print directly in ...
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How to open .arc file

I have a Contacts.arc file which took from a nokia phone as a back-up of contacts.Now my mobile is lost and i want to see some numbers.Is there any application to open .arc file in ubuntu?. I searched ...
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Problem opening SFX archive file(.exe) using the archive manager [closed]

I have installed both rar and unrar using apt-install but I am still not able to use archive manager for opening the archive file.. I have also tried installing p7zip(p7zip-full and p7zip) but no ...
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Why does Ubuntu support so many file compression formats? [closed]

I don't know if only Ubuntu or all Linux distributions support so many file compression formats. But, why are so many formats supported? Where in Windows, by default only .zip files are supported. On ...
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Does Ubuntu carry over Windows filenames (png, exe, ect.) or does it have its own? [duplicate]

If they do I'd love to learn the names of them and what they do.
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How to play Geovision video files in Ubuntu

I will need to playback some video that was made in a Geovision video camera which has its own format. I was told that there may not be a way to play them in VLC or any other because the video file ...
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How to fake the format of file to an arbitrary format?

I have a 10GB .iso file with sensitive information. How can I fake its format to be a format of my choice (say .mp4) Is this method valid for any format? $ cat picture.png myiso.iso.gpg > ...
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How can I open a file with a specific application and another file of the same file type with another application?

Example: The content of my book is stored in book.md. I want to write my book in Typora.io. The content of my presentation is stored in presentation.md. I want to work on my presentation in ...
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Which program to use for viewing mulitplex jpg and mp4 360x360 photosphere files?

TL;DR - Which program to use for viewing mulitplex jpg and mp4 360x360 photosphere files? Bublcam provides http://www.bublcam.com/products/bublcam Photosphere Videos and Photos in Multiplex format as ...
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Is it possible to export citation fields when saving a Writer document (.odt) as a .doc(x)?

I would like to save my LibreOffice Writer document (.odt) containing citation fields added using Zotero as a .doc(x). However when I choose to save as .docx, doc or Office Open XML (.docx) the ...
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Group files in some folders

I have some files with different extensions such as *.pdf, *.mp3, *.jpg and a few others. All of them are stored in a parent directory. How can I get a list of all extensions, create some folders ...
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How to open .tar_1 file?

I downloaded some firmware packages from Intel. Two of them installed fine but this one is different and doesn't unpack fully. It could be the wrong package that I downloaded but I'd like to know ...
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Convert flac to m4a at 400Kps?

It's worth a try, I love linux and I have so many years using it but now there's only one thing that I cannot do. I have my music collection in flac and I always convert flac to m4a using nero aac ...
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Comparing directory sub-structure and file names ignoring file type/extension

This has been partly covered by Comparing the contents of two directories but I have a slightly twist on this problem. I have directories Dir1 and Dir2. Their subdirectory structures should be the ...
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How to open large file with extension .v2.gz?

I am using Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. I have a large file with the extension .v2.gz and I cannot extract it with archive manager. Is there any way to uncompress the file using terminal?
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Can I open several files with the same extension without typing the extension through cmd?

I got a few files to open and they are all in a folder filled with files with the same extension. My question is as the title says, but I'll provide an example: yourprogram <filename1>.ext <...
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Import .key presentations from Keynote

Is there a way to import .key files from Keynote into OpenOffice in Ubuntu? I know you can open them as zip files, but can't I open them as PDF or something similar?
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I cannot download torrents any more! Files I download from torrent sites have the extension .exe

I recently tried to download a few torrents from various sites and found that the file extension of all the files I try to download is .exe, which neither transmission nor vuze nor I know what to do ...
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Which software program can read quicken and quickbook files? [duplicate]

My credit card online account allows me to download my transaction history only in quicken or quickbook format. How can I read them under Ubuntu? Thanks.
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How to audit SE elections results file on Ubuntu?

The AskUbuntu 2016 Moderator Elections have just finished (at the time of this writing), and this is what it says: However it only provides a utility to do this on Windows and Mac, how can one audit ...
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How do I change extensions of different file types [duplicate]

I have many files with different extensions in one directory (for example .aa, .1ab, .412 . etc). How can I change extensions of all this files to .txt There is now other files in folder, only those I ...
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What do you use to edit Microsoft Word documents (docx)?

What alternatives exist for editing Microsoft Word documents (docx)? I know about OpenOffice and Google docs. What else is out there?
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sublime text 3 menu not showing

I have recently installed Ubuntu 16.04 and yesterday I've installed Sublime-text-3 text editor. But the main problem is Menu is not showing unless its opened in root mode,i.e sudo /opt/sublime_text/...
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LibreOffice export compatibility with .doc

I know I can open .doc files in LibreOffice, but can I save a new document as a .doc? You used to be able to do so in OpenOffice, but I can't find anything in LibreOffice to do that.
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How to open xz file into movie player program

my friend sent me film with xz format and that file can't open. How to open that xz file in movie player program?
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What tools are available for determining a files type other than the file command?

I am trying to figure out how Football Manager reads its save games. The files have .fmc extension and if I run the file command it just returns data. I suspect the save game file is a database of ...
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How to open word 5.0 files?

I tried Libreoffice but failed. I used the file command, but it only recognizes the file as "data". Is there a way to open a very old format like a Word 5.0 file? After I use catdoc,it shows this ...
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I am not able to delete a corrupt NTFS partition on my pen drive. How can I force its deletion?

I formatted my 16GB pen drive with the NTFS file system in windows vista. After that I started copying some files. However, only a few files were copied to the pen drive before the copy operation hung....
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File types in Nautilus - how to distinguish between different file types? [closed]

Under file Type column in Nautilus, I get file categories like Image, Document, etc. I need to sort files according to file format. Is there a way make a distinction, based on file formats?
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Shotwell Viewer can't open files without file ending

I am using Ubuntu 14.04 virtual machine. When I try to open an image without file extension (e.g .png) using Shotwell Viewer, it shows the error: "Shotwell does not support the file format of /...
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Installing .tar.bz2 format games [duplicate]

I have downloaded a game called redeclipse from their own website. It's an open source project and hopefully supports Linux too, so I have downloaded it but it came in a .tar.bz2 format. I extracted ...
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How to view and/or edit a .mdb Jet MS Access database file?

I have a .mdb database file which originated from a MS Access Jet database. Is the some way to view this database, and even better, a way to edit and export it?
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File format problem, libreoffice writer is odt format, but i need .pdf, .doc, .docx, .rtf and .txt files format

i need writer formats .pdf, .doc, .docx, .rtf and .txt files only. But in ubuntu 14.04 there is Libreoffice writer that comes with ODT format. So, I am not able to upload my resume in ODT format on ...
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Format Factory equivalent in 14.04

I use Format Factory in Windows to convert media files in different format. Is there any good tool that can convert mp4 to mp3 in Ubuntu 14.04 ?
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How to set gedit language to specific files

How to set gedit to open file as CSS language for .SCSS file extension?
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How can I play a rmvb file in ubuntu trusty?

I have an video file in rmvb format, but vlc player and totem crashes when I try to play it. Is there any way to install realplayer on ubuntu, and if not, how is it possible to play this video on ...
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How to check the default handler for a specific file type in Terminal?

I often come across file types which I am not sure of, but yet need to open, but as I don't know what the default file handler on my system is for that specific file type (and sometimes the file doesn'...
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Something with .txt File? [duplicate]

I have stored a text as .txt while saving it in Gedit in Ubuntu 14.04. But after viewing that folder, which i have stored will have two files with that name but with 'Tilde Symbol' '~' for an ...
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Cannot open zip created with shell script [duplicate]

I try to make a backup script, but when i create a zip with the script, and use cd myzip it sais that it dosnt exitst even when i can see it on the server with FileZilla. This is my script: TIME=...
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Make/Remove USB Storage Devices as Read Only

I just gave my 32GB flash stick to record the VDO for me. After that, I can only see the stuff in it. No delete or cut. It is set as "Read Only", and basically useless... Apparently this my /dev/sdb1 ...
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How to convert multiple ISO8859-1 to UTF-8

Am trying to convert several SQL files from ISO8859-1 to UTF-8 Am doing the following command: iconv -f ISO_8859-1 -t UTF-8 *.sql What i get is an output of their content to the terminal which is ...
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Files starting with a comment have the wrong mime type

In Ubuntu 14.04 I have a directory with a set of LESS files, all with the .less extension. All but three of the files show a mime type of plain text document (text/plain) under Properties > Basic. The ...
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Correct file extensions

I have about 12000 images of different file types but every one of them was renamed *.jpg. Now I want to give them their proper extensions back, how can I do it
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How to open .xmi files

Is there any app that can open .xmi files in Ubuntu? File created in the XMI (XML Metadata Interchange) format, an XML file format most commonly used for exchanging UML diagrams; stores model design ...
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What are '.save' files?

I have been writing several bash scripts, and I have found that while writing them that extra copies of the files have been created which seem to be identical in contents to the normal files, except ...
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Can the Norton Bootable Recovery Tool read Linux partitions?

I have a PC that I can dual boot between Windows 7 and Ubuntu. If I use the Norton Bootable Recovery Tool to scan the PC for viruses (by booting from the Norton CD), will then Norton also scan the ...
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What programs can display an RTFD (rich text + attachments) document?

Nothing on my Ubuntu 11 system seems to automatically open rtfd files.
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Same file extension, but different "Type" in file properties!

I have two different files that have same file extensions: *.otf. But if I right click on these two files, Nautilus shows different "Type:" for them in file properties window: One is ODF template (...
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.123 extension doesn't treated as textfile

The file became lotus spreadsheet when the file extension is .123. I want it to be treated as textfile only since the lotus is adding unecessary characters. Edit: It is only adding extra characters ...
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Can't open 32-bit Machinarium - can't read file type

I purchased machinarium and received my download links. The 64-bit version downloaded and opened fine, but the cursor was not aligned with where I clicked. I then checked my system settings and ...