XBM

File Format
Name	XBM
Ontology	Electronic File Formats Graphics XBM
Extension(s)	.xbm, .bm
MIME Type(s)	image/x-xbitmap
PRONOM	x-fmt/207, x-fmt/299

XBM (X BitMap) is a file format for bi-level raster images. It was one of the few image formats supported by early graphical web browsers.

An XBM file is plain text, and doubles as a fragment of C programming code. The format is very inefficient in size, but it can be useful as a simple way to embed an image into a C program.

See also

• XPM

Software

• Netpbm: pbmtoxbm, xbmtopbm
• ImageMagick

Sample files

• http://www.fileformat.info/format/xbm/sample/index.htm
• http://people.sc.fsu.edu/~jburkardt/data/xbm/xbm.html

Links

• XBM File Format Summary, from the Encyclopedia of Graphics File Formats
• Wikipedia article