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# Deprecated symbols

Review symbols that are no longer in active development, and their recommended replacements.

## Overview

Although these symbols are available for use, Apple is no longer actively developing them, and may remove them in a future release. Apple recommends moving away from these symbols and using their indicated replacements instead. Check the individual symbol pages for the recommended replacements.

## Topics

### Deprecated constants

[`static const NSBitmapImageFileType NSTIFFFileType;`](/documentation/AppKit/NSTIFFFileType)

Tagged Image File Format (TIFF).

[`static const NSBitmapImageFileType NSBMPFileType;`](/documentation/AppKit/NSBMPFileType)

Windows bitmap image (BMP) format.

[`static const NSBitmapImageFileType NSGIFFileType;`](/documentation/AppKit/NSGIFFileType)

Graphics Image Format (GIF), originally created by CompuServe for online downloads.

[`static const NSBitmapImageFileType NSJPEGFileType;`](/documentation/AppKit/NSJPEGFileType)

JPEG format.

[`static const NSBitmapImageFileType NSPNGFileType;`](/documentation/AppKit/NSPNGFileType)

Portable Network Graphics (PNG) format.

[`static const NSBitmapImageFileType NSJPEG2000FileType;`](/documentation/AppKit/NSJPEG2000FileType)

JPEG 2000 file format.


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