MSP (Microsoft Paint)

File Format
Name	MSP (Microsoft Paint)
Ontology	Electronic File Formats Graphics MSP (Microsoft Paint)
Extension(s)	.msp
PRONOM	x-fmt/214, fmt/912

This article is about the Windows 1 and 2 graphics format. For the Windows Installer file format of the same name, see Windows Installer.

MSP (Microsoft Paint, or Windows Paint) is the native file format of the Paint application included with Microsoft Windows versions 1 and 2. It is a bi-level raster image format.

Format

Files have a 32-byte header.

Identification

Version 1 files begin with signature bytes 44 61 6E 4D.

Version 2 files begin with signature bytes 4C 69 6E 53.

Software

• Microsoft Paint (Windows 3.1x version can convert to a .bmp file.)
• Konvertor
• XnView (MSP version 2 only?)^{[citation needed]}
• Deark
• RECOIL

Sample files

• http://www.fileformat.info/format/mspaint/sample/index.htm
• MSP1.ZIP
• https://telparia.com/fileFormatSamples/image/msp/

Links

• Microsoft Paint File Format Summary, from the Encyclopedia of Graphics File Formats