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Public UTIs supported by Mac OS X v10.3
Q: What are the public UTIs supported by Mac OS X v10.3?
A: UTIs (Uniform Type Identifier) were introduced in Carbon with the Pasteboard Manager on Mac OS X v10.3.
This document lists the public UTIs supported on Mac OS X v10.3. Later releases of Mac OS X will list the public UTIs supported in a new header (UTCoreTypes.h) of the LaunchServices framework.
UTI | Conforms To | Description |
|---|---|---|
public.data |
| Base type for any sort of simple byte stream, including files and in-memory data |
public.text | public.data | Base type for all text-encoded data, including text with markup (HTML, RTF, etc.) |
public.plain-text | public.text | Text with no markup, unspecified encoding |
public.utf16-plain-text | public.plain-text | Plain text, UTF-16 encoding, native byte order, no BOM, (OSType 'utxt') |
public.rtf | public.text | Rich Text Format |
public.html | public.text | HTML, any version |
public.xml | public.text | Generic XML |
com.adobe.pdf | public.data | Adobe PDF |
public.url | public.data | The bytes of a URL, (OSType 'url ') |
public.vcard | public.data | VCard format |
public.image | public.data | Abstract image data |
public.jpeg | public.image | JPEG image |
public.jpeg-2000 | public.image | JPEG-2000 image |
public.tiff | public.image | TIFF image |
com.apple.pict | public.image | Quickdraw PICT format |
Document Revision History
| Date | Notes |
|---|---|
| 2014-03-06 | Lists the public UTIs (Uniform Type Identifiers) used by the Pasteboard in Mac OS X v10.3. |
| 2005-02-08 | New document that lists the public UTIs (Uniform Type Identifiers) used by the Pasteboard in Mac OS X v10.3. |
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