Glossary
- e.K.
- abbreviation of:registered tradesman
In Germany, the term “Eingetragener Kaufmann (HGB) (e.K., e.Kfm.)” [men] or “Eingetragene Kauffrau (e.K., e.Kfr.)” [women] indicates that an individual entrepreneur, i.e. a natural person, has been registered in the Commercial Registry as a registered tradesperson.
- EN
- acronym of:English
Here we go in English
- JPEG
- acronym of:Joint Photographic Experts Group
JPEG is a standard presented in 1992, named after the developing “Joint Photographic Experts Group”. JPEG is used to compress image data (lossy compression).
- acronym of:Portable Document Format
The “Portable Document Format” is a platform independent document file format, developed by Adobe, and published by that company in 1993 together with “Acrobat 1”. PDF is a commercial (proprietary) yet open-source data format documented in the Adobe PDF reference manual. Certain PDF handling methods have been standardized by the ISO, e.g. for facilitating pre-print data exchange (PDF/X) and for long-term archiving (PDF/A).
- RSS
- acronym of:Really Simple Syndication
RSS is an electronic news format that enables users to subscribe to the contents of a website via a so-called RSS feed.
- ZIP
- definition:file compression format
The ZIP file format is an open format used for the compressed archiving of data. The archived data usually carry the extension ”.zip”.



