Ability Office PhotoPaint - Revision history

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Dan Tobias: /* Other links */

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Dan Tobias: Created page with "{{FormatInfo |formattype=electronic |subcat=Graphics |extensions={{ext|apx}} |released=1992 }} '''Ability Office PhotoPaint''' (APX) is the native format of the PhotoPaint pro..."

2014-01-16T04:24:25Z

Created page with "{{FormatInfo |formattype=electronic |subcat=Graphics |extensions={{ext|apx}} |released=1992 }} '''Ability Office PhotoPaint''' (APX) is the native format of the PhotoPaint pro..."

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{{FormatInfo
|formattype=electronic
|subcat=Graphics
|extensions={{ext|apx}}
|released=1992
}}
'''Ability Office PhotoPaint''' (APX) is the native format of the PhotoPaint program in the Ability Office suite, though this program also supports some other, more widely-used formats. It is apparently a different program from [[Corel Photo-Paint image|Corel Photo-Paint]], though they both seem to be intended as replacements for Adobe Photoshop, and support the [[PSD]] format among others.

The format stores 24 bits per pixel, uncompressed, so its files are bulky but include a large amount of information in a loss-free manner. It does not appear to be widely supported or documented, so your best bet when encountering such a file would be to obtain Ability Office (a 30-day trial version is downloadable) in order to load the file and save it out in a better-supported format.

== Identification ==
Files (at least ones in the current version as of early 2014) begin with the hex bytes <code>53 44 33 53</code>, which spell <code>SD3S</code> in ASCII. They also have <code>4D 58 52 42</code> (spelling <code>MXRB</code>) at position 20 hex (32 decimal).

== Sample files ==
* [http://www.dan.info/sampledata/sample.apx sample.apx]

== Other links ==
* [[Ability Office|Wikipedia article on Ability Office]]
* [http://www.ability.com/ Ability Software site]

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 == Sample files ==
-* [http://www.dan.info/sampledata/test.apx test.apx] - Simple test file (100 x 100 image, all pixels RGB hex 47EF61, so it seems it is compressed)
+* [https://www.dan.info/sampledata/test.apx test.apx] - Simple test file (100 x 100 image, all pixels RGB hex 47EF61, so it seems it is compressed)
-* [http://www.dan.info/sampledata/sample.apx sample.apx] - Full-size image of a photo
+* [https://www.dan.info/sampledata/sample.apx sample.apx] - Full-size image of a photo
 == Other links ==
 * [[Wikipedia:Ability Office|Wikipedia article on Ability Office]]
 * [http://www.ability.com/ Ability Software site]

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 == Sample files ==
-* [http://www.dan.info/sampledata/test.apx test.apx] - Simple test file (100 x 100 image, all pixels RGB hex 47EF61)
+* [http://www.dan.info/sampledata/test.apx test.apx] - Simple test file (100 x 100 image, all pixels RGB hex 47EF61, so it seems it is compressed)
 * [http://www.dan.info/sampledata/sample.apx sample.apx] - Full-size image of a photo

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 |released=1994
 }}
-'''Ability Office PhotoPaint''' (APX) is the native format of the PhotoPaint program in the Ability Office suite, though this program also supports some other, more widely-used formats. It is apparently a different program from [[Corel Photo-Paint image|Corel Photo-Paint]], though they both seem to be intended as replacements for Adobe Photoshop, and support the [[PSD]] format among others.
+'''Ability Office PhotoPaint''' (APX) is the native format of the PhotoPaint program in the Ability Office suite, though this program also supports some other, more widely-used formats. It is apparently a different program from [[Corel Photo-Paint image|Corel Photo-Paint]], though they both seem to be intended as replacements for [[Adobe Photoshop]], and support the [[PSD]] format among others.
 The format stores 24 bits per pixel (uncompressed?), so its files are bulky but include a large amount of information in a loss-free manner. It does not appear to be widely supported or documented, so your best bet when encountering such a file would be to obtain Ability Office (a 30-day trial version is downloadable) in order to load the file and save it out in a better-supported format.

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 == Identification ==
 Files (at least ones in the current version as of early 2014) begin with the hex bytes <code>53 44 33 53</code>, which spell <code>SD3S</code> in ASCII. They also have <code>4D 58 52 42</code> (spelling <code>MXRB</code>) at position 20 hex (32 decimal).
 == See also ==

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 |subcat=Graphics
 |extensions={{ext|apx}}
-|released=1992
+|released=1994
 }}
 '''Ability Office PhotoPaint''' (APX) is the native format of the PhotoPaint program in the Ability Office suite, though this program also supports some other, more widely-used formats. It is apparently a different program from [[Corel Photo-Paint image|Corel Photo-Paint]], though they both seem to be intended as replacements for Adobe Photoshop, and support the [[PSD]] format among others.