FlashPix

File Format
Name	FlashPix
Ontology	Electronic File Formats Graphics FlashPix
Extension(s)	.fpx
MIME Type(s)	image/vnd.fpx
PRONOM	x-fmt/56

Overview

Kodak FlashPix (FPX) is a complex raster image file format intended for use with photographic images.

A FlashPix file contains either a single image, or multiple representations of the same image at different resolutions.

The format is tile-oriented. Images may use JPEG compression, or be uncompressed.

Identifiers

• Macintosh file type: FPix

Identification

Files begin with an 8-byte signature: D0 CF 11 E0 A1 B1 1A E1.

Related formats

The Exif specification defines a way to store some of the data from a FlashPix file in an Exif-compliant JPEG file.

Specifications

• FlashPix Format Specification Version 1.0

Software

• Flashpix OpenSource Toolkit (libfpx): ImageMagick delegates → libfpx-*

Sample files

• PerlMagick test files

Resources

• Wikipedia article
• ExifTool FlashPix Tags