DEFLATE

File Format
Name	DEFLATE
Ontology	Electronic File Formats Compression DEFLATE
PRONOM	x-cmp/16

DEFLATE is a widely used lossless compression algorithm based on LZ77 and Huffman coding. For many software implementations that support creation or extraction of ZIP archive files, DEFLATE is the only compression algorithm supported. It is also used by gzip and PNG. The PDF specification permits a variety of compression schemes, including DEFLATE, which is tagged as FlateDecode.

See also

• zlib

References

• RFC 1951: DEFLATE Compressed Data Format Specification version 1.3
• DEFLATE : Wikipedia
• Dissecting the GZIP format