What Is the JPEG Graphics Format?
JPEG is an acronym for Joint Photographic Experts Group. This graphics file format is an ISO/ITU standard for storing raster (or bitmap) style (not vector style, like metafile) images in compressed form using a discrete cosine transform. Like bitmaps (see above), the customization or editing options of such graph representations will be limited (typically to operations on pixels, such as stretching and shrinking, cutting and pasting, and drawing “over” the graph). The major advantage of the JPEG format is that as compared to bitmaps, it is much more economical (uses less storage space), and it is commonly used to represent graphics components of HTML files for reports that will be viewed in an Internet or intranet setting.
