- Extension
- .sxw
- .g4
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Document
- Fax
- Developer
- Oracle
- Computer Fax Systems (CFS)
- Description
- The SXW file format is associated with StarOffice Writer, a word processing application that was part of the StarOffice suite developed by Sun Microsystems. The SXW file type was primarily used to save text documents that could include formatted text, images, tables, and other document elements. StarOffice served as a precursor to the more widely known OpenOffice.org suite, which later evolved into Apache OpenOffice and LibreOffice, among others.
- Group 4 (G4) used for black and white lossless compression to maintain high-quality images, commonly used in TIFF format compression by fax machines. A picture is seen as black dots and lines on a blank page; the fewer the dots and lines are, the lesser the file size.
- MIME Type
- application/vnd.sun.xml.writer
- image/g4fax
