An infrared IWB is also available in a portable format.

The arrival of the iPod in the casual gaming market made more powerful games widely available in a portable format.

With a document viewer, the driver instead produces a software document in a portable format that can be viewed on different computers.

Generally, pochades use a small, portable format.

The portable format allows additions, deletions and modifications to be readily performed by simple text-editing programs.

The standard describes an "open, secure, portable, efficient and extensible format for the packaging and distribution of software to be run in virtual machines".

In addition to straight image formats, Metafile formats are portable formats which can include both raster and vector information.

The name comes from the first three letters of PDF (Portable Document Format).

Brian D. Crecente, editor of the Kotaku gaming site (www.kotaku.com), has shown some ambivalence about movies in the portable format.

See also Portable Document Format.