Public UTIs supported by Mac OS X v10.3

Technical Q&A QA1406

Public UTIs supported by Mac OS X v10.3

Q: What are the public UTIs supported by Mac OS X v10.3?

A: What are the public UTIs supported by Mac OS X v10.3?

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.

Table 1  public UTIs.

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
2005-02-08	New document that lists the public UTIs (Uniform Type Identifiers) used by the Pasteboard in Mac OS X v10.3.