File formats: D
Every format whose extension starts with D.
Formats
| Format | Name | About | Main software | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
.D64 | Commodore 64 disk image | A Commodore 1541 floppy disk: 683 sectors of 256 bytes, in track order. | VICE | DocumentedViewerEditorOpen |
.DAE | COLLADA digital asset | Khronos’ XML exchange format for 3D scenes, grouped into libraries. | SketchUp | DocumentedViewerEditorOpen |
.DBF | dBASE table | One dBASE table: a header, field list, then fixed-length text records. | LibreOffice Calc | DocumentedViewerEditorOpen |
.DCM | DICOM medical image | Medical scans with patient and study details, as tagged data elements. | Horos | DocumentedViewerEditorOpen |
.DDS | DirectDraw Surface | DirectX textures, usually block-compressed, with mipmaps and cube maps. | Paint.NET | DocumentedViewerEditorOpen |
.DEB | Debian package | Software for Debian and Ubuntu: an ar archive of control and data tarballs. | dpkg | DocumentedViewerEditorOpen |
.DER | DER-encoded certificate or key | Certificates and keys in binary ASN.1: tag, length and value fields. | OpenSSL | DocumentedViewerEditorOpen |
.DESKTOP | Linux desktop entry | A Linux application launcher: name, icon and command in INI-style text. | GNOME | DocumentedViewerEditorOpen |
.DEX | Dalvik Executable | Android app code: Dalvik bytecode for all classes, with shared tables. | Android Studio | DocumentedViewerEditorOpen |
.DFU | USB Device Firmware Upgrade file | USB device firmware with a 16-byte suffix naming the device it is for. | dfu-util | DocumentedViewerEditorOpen |
.DJVU | DjVu | Scanned pages split into a text mask and colour layers, each compressed its own way. | DjView | DocumentedViewerEditorOpen |
.DLS | Downloadable Sounds | The MIDI standard’s instrument bank: RIFF chunks of instruments and a wave pool. | Awave Studio | DocumentedViewerEditorOpen |
.DMG | Apple disk image | The Mac’s disk image: compressed runs of sectors and a koly trailer. | Finder | DocumentedViewerEditorOpen |
.DNG | Adobe Digital Negative | Adobe’s open raw photo format, built on TIFF. | Adobe Lightroom | DocumentedViewerEditorOpen |
.DOC | Word binary document | Word’s binary format before DOCX, in Word 6.0/95 and Word 97–2003 versions. | Microsoft Word | DocumentedViewerEditorOpen |
.DOC | Word 6.0 and 95 document | Word 6.0 and 95 documents: single-byte text in one compound file stream. | Microsoft Word | DocumentedViewerEditorOpen |
.DOC | Word 97–2003 document | Word’s binary document from Word 97 to 2003: streams in a compound file. | Microsoft Word | DocumentedViewerEditorOpen |
.DOCX | Word document | Microsoft Word’s ZIP package of XML parts, standard since Word 2007. | Microsoft Word | DocumentedViewerEditorOpen |
.DRAWIO | draw.io diagram | draw.io diagrams: XML pages of shapes and connectors, sometimes compressed. | draw.io | DocumentedViewerEditorOpen |
.DRC | Draco compressed mesh | Google’s compressed mesh and point cloud format, also used inside glTF. | draco_decoder | DocumentedViewerEditorOpen |
.DRP | DaVinci Resolve project | A DaVinci Resolve project exported from its database, without the media. | DaVinci Resolve | DocumentedViewerEditorOpen |
.DSK | Amstrad CPC disk image | A CPC or Spectrum +3 floppy, track by track with each sector’s ID. | Caprice32 | DocumentedViewerEditorOpen |
.DSYM | Apple debug symbol bundle | Debug symbols for macOS and iOS programs: DWARF in a Mach-O file in a bundle. | Xcode | DocumentedViewerEditorOpen |
.DUCKDB | DuckDB database file | An analytical SQL database in one file, its tables stored by column. | DuckDB | DocumentedViewerEditorOpen |
.DWG | AutoCAD drawing | AutoCAD’s native drawing, versioned by a six-character string at the start. | AutoCAD | DocumentedViewerEditorOpen |
.DWO | Split DWARF debug information | DWARF debug data kept out of the object file, packed later into .dwp. | GDB | DocumentedViewerEditorOpen |
.DXF | Drawing Exchange Format | Autodesk’s documented exchange format, pairs of group codes and values. | AutoCAD | DocumentedViewerEditorOpen |
.DYLIB | Mach-O executable and library | Programs, .dylib libraries and universal binaries on macOS and iOS. | Xcode | DocumentedViewerEditorOpen |