FlashPix

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

Kodak FlashPix (FPX) is a complex raster image file format intended for use with photographic images. It was developed by Eastman Kodak, in collaboration with Hewlett-Packard, Live Picture, and Microsoft. It is based on Microsoft Compound File format.

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

The format is tile-oriented. A tile may use JPEG compression, or be uncompressed. There is also a scheme to efficiently encode tiles whose pixels are all the same color.

Identifiers

• Macintosh file type: FPix

Related formats

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

Specifications

• FlashPix Format Specification Version 1.0
• FlashPix Format Specification Version 1.0.2

Software

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

Sample files

• PerlMagick test files
• dexvert samples — image/fpx
• Live Pix Special Edition - Windows95+ → LIVEPIX.iso → .../*.FPX
• Looney Tunes Photo Fun → LooneyTunesPhotoFun.iso → Photos/.../*.FPX
• Kodak Samples FPX files

Resources

• Wikipedia article
• FlashPix Whitepaper 1996
• Kodak FlashPix Home (archived)
• FlashPix Interoperability Test Suite User's Manual
• ExifTool FlashPix Tags