Sun Raster

File Format
Name	Sun Raster
Ontology	Electronic File Formats Graphics Sun Raster
Extension(s)	.sun, .ras, .rast, .rs, .sr, .scr, .im1, .im8, .im24, .im32
PRONOM	x-fmt/184

Sun Raster is an image file format commonly used on Sun operating systems. It supports grayscale, paletted, and full color images. Images may be uncompressed, or use RLE compression.

Format

Files have a fixed 32-byte header.

Identification

Files begin with signature bytes 59 a6 6a 95.

Specifications

• http://www.fileformat.info/format/sunraster/spec/index.htm
• https://hg.java.net/hg/solaris-x11~x-s12-clone/file/b0bfd498768f/open-src/data/rasterfile/sun-src

Software

• Netpbm: pnmtorast, rasttopnm
• ImageMagick (format named "RAS" or "SUN")

Sample files

• http://samples.libav.org/image-samples/sunrast/

Resources

• Sun Raster File Format Summary, from the Encyclopedia of Graphics File Formats
• MultimediaWiki article