Netpbm formats
(→See also) |
|||
| Line 47: | Line 47: | ||
== See also == | == See also == | ||
* [[ImgStar]] | * [[ImgStar]] | ||
| + | * [[MTV ray tracer bitmap]] | ||
* [[Netpbm]] | * [[Netpbm]] | ||
* [[PAM (Portable Arbitrary Map)]] | * [[PAM (Portable Arbitrary Map)]] | ||
Revision as of 01:47, 16 January 2015
The Netpbm formats are a family of simple raster image file formats, associated with the Netpbm library and suite of image processing utilities.
The Netpbm formats are often used as "neutral" or "universal" image formats. It's not unusual for an image format's reference software to include a utility to convert to and from one of the Netpbm formats (and perhaps no other formats). Many of these conversion utilities have ultimately been incorporated into the Netpbm software.
Contents |
Formats
- PBM (portable bitmap) is a bi-level image format.
- PGM (portable graymap) is a grayscale image format.
- PPM (portable pixmap) is a color image format.
- PNM (portable anymap) is a collective name for PBM, PGM, and PPM. A .pnm file may use any of those formats.
- PAM: Refer to PAM (Portable Arbitrary Map). Although PAM is one of the Netpbm formats, it's different enough that it's best documented in a separate article.
Identifiers and Identification
Each file begins with two ASCII characters, which serve as a signature.
The PBM, PGM, and PPM formats come in two varieties: a text (or "plain" or "ASCII") format, and a binary (or "raw") format.
| Format | Signature | PRONOM | MIME type |
|---|---|---|---|
| PBM, text | P1 |
x-fmt/164 | image/x-portable-bitmap, image/x-portable-anymap |
| PBM, binary | P4 |
fmt/409 | |
| PGM, text | P2 |
fmt/407 | image/x-portable-graymap, image/x-portable-anymap |
| PGM, binary | P5 |
fmt/406 | |
| PPM, text | P3 |
x-fmt/178 | image/x-portable-pixmap, image/x-portable-anymap |
| PPM, binary | P6 |
fmt/408 |
Multi-image files
Although the Netpbm formats are usually thought of as single-image formats, the binary formats technically do support multiple images per file. This is accomplished simply by concatenating single-image files together. Such multi-image files are probably not well-supported.
See also
- ImgStar
- MTV ray tracer bitmap
- Netpbm
- PAM (Portable Arbitrary Map)
- PFM (Portable Float Map)
- PFS (Portable Floatmap Stream)
- XV thumbnail
Specifications
Software
The PBM/PGM/PPM/PNM formats are widely supported. Software listed here has been arbitrarily selected.
Sample files
- http://www.fileformat.info/format/pbm/sample/index.htm
- http://samples.libav.org/image-samples/ → *.ppm, *.pgm
- http://www.csbruce.com/cbm/ftp/images/pbm/
