The phrase "a pictorial format" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a visual representation of information, such as images, diagrams, or illustrations.
Example: "The data was presented in a pictorial format to make it easier for the audience to understand the trends."
Alternatives: "a visual format" or "an illustrated format".
Richard Attenborough's Entirely Up to You, Darling may well be the acting profession's biggest Christmas seller, although it remains to be seen whether Sean Connery's Being a Scot, in an awkward pictorial format, will appeal widely, especially with its political content.
In a previous study, we compared a prototype ecological display (ED) that represented physiological data in a structured pictorial format with two bar graph displays [J.A. Effken, Improving clinical decision making through ecological interfaces, Ecol. Psych. 18 (2006) 283–318].
To propose his model, Pinker (1990) first defined visual array (italicized in original) as those early visual representations displaying the input in a relatively unprocessed, pictorial format.
A Parent Guide reinforces key messages in pictorial format.
Domain-specific prior knowledge, pacing of the materials, pictorial format, mapping requirements, and distinctiveness of signals were coded as moderators.
Some stimuli, 137 to date, have also been reproduced in black-and-white line-drawn versions and can serve to control for pictorial format.
Both the probabilities of having and not having the event are given, and all probabilities are presented in both numerical and pictorial format [ 24].
It may be easy for the human eye to look at the pictorial format of the pathway map; but it is hard for computer programs to retrieve accurate information automatically.
Patients preferred a combination of numerical and pictorial formats in discussing LE and SP, with numerical, verbal and pictorial formats alone least preferred.
