- Extension
- .sxw
- .sun
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Document
- Raster Image
- Developer
- Oracle
- Sun Microsystems
- 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.
- Bitmap image generated by a Sun Microsystems workstation; native graphic format used by the Sun Unix operating system; uses a standard image format that can be read by several graphics programs.
- MIME Type
- application/vnd.sun.xml.writer
- image/x-sun-raster
