Grapher supports many different file formats. Below is the list of all supported file formats. If you don't see one you need, please submit a support request.
| DATA TYPES | IMPORT | EXPORT |
| 000 IHO S-57 Navigational Chart | X | |
| ACCDB Access Database | X | |
| AN? ACR-NEMA Medical Image | X | |
| BLN Golden Software Blanking | X | X |
| BMP Windows Bitmap | X | X |
| BNA Atlas Boundary | X | X |
| CLP Windows Clipboard | X | X |
| CSV Comma Separated Variables/XYZ Points | X | X |
| DAT ASCII Data/XYZ Points | X | X |
| DBF ASCII Database | X | X |
| DCM DICOM3 Medical Image | X | |
| DDF SDTS TVP | X | |
| DGN MicroStation Design v7 | X | |
| DIC DICOM3 Medical Image | X | |
| DLG, LGO, LGS USGS Digital Line Graph | X | |
| DXF AutoCAD Drawing | X | X |
| E00 ESRI ArcInfo Export Format | X | |
| ECW ER Mapper | X | |
| EMF Windows Enhanced Metafile | X | X |
| EPS Encapsulated Postscript | X | |
| GDB Esri File Geodatabase | X | |
| GEOJSON GeoJSON Data interchange Format | X | |
| GIF Graphics Interchange Format | X | X |
| GML Geography Markup Language | X | |
| GPX GPS Exchange Format | X | X |
| GSB Golden Software Boundary | X | X |
| GSI Golden Software Interchange | X | X |
| JP2 JPEG2000 Image | X | X |
| J2K JPEG2000 Image | X | X |
| JPG JPEG Image | X | X |
| JPG2000 JPEG2000 Image | X | X |
| LAS, LAZ LiDAR Binary | X | |
| MDB Esri Personal Geodatabase/Microsoft Access | X | |
| MID MapInfo Attribute Data | X | X |
| MIF MapInfo Interchange Format | X | X |
| PDF PDF Raster/PDF Vector | X | X |
| PLT Golden Software PlotCall | X | |
| PLY Stanford | X | |
| PNG Portable Network Graphics | X | X |
| PNM, PPM, PGM, PBM Portable Any Map File | X | X |
| RAS, SUN Sun Raster Image | X | X |
| RGB, RGBA, BW Portable Graphics | X | X |
| RT* TIGER/Line File Format | X | |
| S-57 IHO S-57 Navigation Chart | X | |
| SEG SEG-P1 Exchange Format | X | X |
| SHP ESRI Shapefile | X | X |
| SID MrSID Image File | X | |
| SLK Microsoft SYLK | X | X |
| SP1 SEG-P1 Exchange Format | X | X |
| SVG Scalable Vector Graphics | X | |
| TAB MapInfo Table TAB/MAP | X | |
| TGA Targa TrueVision | X | X |
| TIF Tagged Image | X | X |
| TXT Text Data | X | X |
| VCT IDRISI Binary Vector | X | |
| VTK Visualization Toolkit | X | |
| WMF Windows Metafile | X | X |
| X, XIMG AVS X-Image | X | X |
| XLS Excel Spreadsheet | X | X |
| XLSX Excel 2007 Spreadsheet | X | X |
| XLSM Excel 2007 Macro Spreadsheet | X | |
| GRID TYPES - Contour & Surface Plots | IMPORT | EXPORT |
| DDF USGS DEM Grid File | X | |
| DEM USGS DEM Grid File | X | |
| DTD DTED | X | |
| GRD Surfer Grid | X | X |
For more information on how to use these formats and with which menu commands, please see the Grapher Help references Data File Formats and File Format Chart.
Updated March 2023
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