It is a file that contains digital Photography in a form of what digital matrix "saw". It can be converted to other different image formats using dedicated software. RAW is usually larger file than JPG and potentially contains much more image details within. It is similar to a film negative.
Raw isn't an acronym, it indicates that the file was read directly from the camera sensor, so it is raw in the sense of uncooked.
NEF its stand's for Nikon Electronic File
NEF stands for Nikon Electronic Format. It is NikonÕs RAW file format that features image information and metadata received from the cameraÕs sensor.
Audio Interchange File Format (AIFF)
You can upload a raw XML file with EG in the description by using the green button file format.
Tagged Image File Format
It is not possible to convert a JPEG file into a RAW format file. This is because a RAW file is a lossless recording of all the data received by the camera from the sensor and a JPEG file is a lossey compressed file containing only a fraction of this information. For this reason, the JPEG file would not contain enough data in order to recreate the amount required to generate a RAW file. RAW files can only be created directly by a camera as the image is recorded.
The .PTX file extension is used as a Court Reporter Transcript file or as RAW file generated from a Pentax camera
This is the format extension for an image file, and it stands for: Encapsulated Post Script. This format is often used with Adobe Illustrator.
Changing from one file format to another. A few examples:converting tiff image file to a jpeg image fileconverting raw image file to a jpeg image fileconverting wordperfect document file to a word documentconverting word document file to an openoffice document fileconverting excel spreadsheet file to an openoffice spreadsheet fileconverting windows media sound file to an mpeg sound fileetc.Note: both formats must be capable of storing similar things. An image file can be converted to a different image file format, but not to a spreadsheet file format or sound file format.
RAR stands for Roshal ARchive. This is an archive file format that allows data compression. If there is an error, it allows one to recover the file.
A gif file has information that cannot be directly editing it just by modifying it as raw text. If you open your .GIF in notepad, you will see what I mean.
General Feature Format Girl Friends Forever Generic File Format I'm not sure how to answer this one, unless you specify how the acronym was used exactly.