R/W
Extension |
Description |
Read (R)
or
Read/Write (R/W) |
| BMP |
Bit Mapped Image - For OS/2 |
R/W |
| BMP |
Bit Mapped Image - For Windows |
R/W |
| CAL |
Continuous Acquisition and Life-Cycle (CALS)
Support >Raster - U.S. government standard |
R/W |
| CMP |
Lead Compressed file format |
R/W |
| CUR |
Cursor format for Windows |
R/W |
| CUT |
Dr. Halo files are device independent images. The image is
stored in one file (.CUT) and the palette is stored in a separate file (PAL). If the image
has no corresponding .PAL file, it is considered a grayscale image. |
R/W |
| DXF |
AutoCAD Drawing Interchange Format - A DXF file is an
ASCII file containing 2D and 3D components representing a drawing. DXF was first
introduced by AutoDesk AutoCAD and is one of the most widely used CAD/CAM/CAE application
in the world. DXF is very popular and is supported by most 3D applications on PC
platforms. |
R |
| DWG |
AutoCAD Drawing Files - DWG is a binary file format used
by AutoDesk AutoCAD. It can contain 2D or 3D objects and offers compression and a CRC
check for internal data. |
R |
| EPS |
Encapsulated PostScript - Used primarily on PostScript
printers that usually offer more variety of fonts and higher resolution than standard
laser printers. |
R |
| FLC |
Flic Animation - The Flic file is an animation file
created by Auto-desk. This file supports image data but not audio data. The frames of this
file can be of 8bpp image data. The maximum number of frames is 4000. |
R/W |
| FLI |
Flic Animation - The Flic file is an animation file
created by Auto-desk. This file supports image data but not audio data. The frames of this
file can be of 8bpp image data. The maximum number of frames is 4000. |
R |
| FPX |
Format for digital color photographic images developed by
Kodak,
Microsoft Corporation, Hewlett-Packard Company and Live Picture,
Inc in 1995-1996. |
R/W |
| EMF |
The Windows Metafile (WMF and EMF) formats are vectored
formats that may or may not also contain a raster image |
R/W |
| GIF |
Graphics Interchange Format |
R/W |
| GIF |
Animated GIF with full animation |
R |
| ICO |
Icon format for Windows |
R/W |
| IMG |
GEM metafile |
R/W |
| ICA |
IOCAIBM - Image Object Content Architecture |
R/W |
| ICA |
MODICA - Image Object Content Architecture-RAW |
R/W |
| IFF |
Interchange File Format - IFF is a
general purpose data storage format that can associate and store multiple types of data in
RLE and non-compressed formats. |
R/W |
| JPG |
JPEG File Interchange Format - JFIF |
R/W |
| JTF |
JPEG Tagged Interchange Format - JTIF |
R/W |
| JP2 |
JPEG 2000 is an international standard
(ISO/IEC 15444-1) for still image compression. JPEG 2000 supports both lossy and lossless
compression of grayscale and color images. |
R/W |
| MAC |
MacPaint |
R/W |
| MPT |
multipage TIFF format (used for faxes) |
R |
| MSP |
Microsoft Paint (an older format) |
R/W |
| PSP |
JASC - Paint Shop Pro Image |
R |
| PCX |
by ZSoft(r) used by Paint |
R/W |
| PCD |
Kodak Photo CD |
R |
| PNG |
Portable Network Graphics - replacement for GIF |
R/W |
| PSD |
Adobe PhotoShopDocument Image |
R/W |
| PSP |
JASC PaintShop Image |
R |
| RAS |
SUN Raster (RAS) is a format native to Sun UNIX platforms |
R/W |
| TGA |
Truevision(r) TGA (TARGA) compressed/RLE |
R/W |
| TIF |
Tag Image File Format - Tag-based file format for
universal interchanges of digital image data. (See also MPT- Multi Page Tiff) |
R/W |
| TIF |
TIFF Fax Formats |
R/W |
| TIF |
EXIF - Exchangeable
Image file Format for Digital Still Cameras |
R/W |
| WMF |
The Windows Metafile (WMF and EMF) formats are vectored
formats that may or may not also contain a raster image |
R/W |
| WXF |
Winfax Fax format |
R/W |
| XPM |
X PixMap-Pixmap is a color format developed for X Windows
by MIT. PentaView can read and display Pixmap files. |
R/W |
| XBM |
XBM is a monochrome bitmap format in which data is stored
as a C language data array. It is primarily used for the storage of cursor and icon
bitmaps, for use in the X graphical user interface. |
R/W |
| XWD |
XWD stands for X Window dump. This file format is used to
store and restore screen window images. Two versions of this file exist, the X10 window
dump and the X11 window dump. These versions differ slightly in the format of the data
(i.e. headers and bits per pixel). |
R/W |
