Palm bitmap

File Format
Name	Palm bitmap
Ontology	Electronic File Formats Graphics Palm bitmap

Palm bitmap, or Palm BitmapType (also called Palm Pilot Tbmp, Palm Pilot Bitmap, Palm pixmap, etc.), is a native bitmap format of Palm OS. It supports a variety of image types and compression schemes.

It can be found embedded in some Palm file formats, and apparently has also been used by itself as a file format. In a PRC file, resources named "Tbmp", "tAIB", and probably others, use this format.

Format details

There are about four different versions of the format. It begins with a header of at least 16 bytes.

Specifications

• Palm OS Reference - See "BitmapType" and "BitmapTypeV..." sections starting on p. 518
• Palm Native Image Format

Software

• Netpbm: pnmtopalm, palmtopnm
• ImageMagick (format named "PALM")