Inset PIX

File Format
Name	Inset PIX
Ontology	Electronic File Formats Graphics Inset PIX
Extension(s)	.pix
PRONOM	x-fmt/171
Wikidata ID	Q28206351
Released	≤1986

Inset PIX is a graphics file format associated with INSET (also written InSet or Inset), a graphics utility for DOS developed by American Programmers Guild. A PIX file contains either raster or character graphics. The format is fairly complex.

The HiJaak line of graphics software (by Inset Systems, etc.) can convert to or from PIX format. HiJaak seems to be the successor to INSET. The successor to PIX format seems to be IGF.

PIX format and/or INSET is also apparently used in some way by several word processors, including WordStar, MultiMate, and PC-Write.

There are at least two incompatible versions of PIX. The best known is the one with version number 3.

Specifications

• Inset PIX File Format Summary, from the Encyclopedia of Graphics File Formats
• Inset PIX File Specification

Software

• Inset 2.0C (at Vetusware; apparently not an original copy)
• PCW41B.ZIP → GRAPHICS.ZIP - INSET 2.2C (PC-Write-related)
• [1] → 177.img → WS6#07I1.LZH, WS6#08I2.LZH - INSET 2.2C (WordStar-related)
• HiJaak (at WinWorld) - v2.10 for DOS, etc.
• Deark

Sample files

• http://www.fileformat.info/format/inset/sample/
• http://cd.textfiles.com/psl/psl9309/DOS/PCWRITE/PIX/
• dexvert samples — image/insetPix

Links

• InfoWorld article about Inset, 1986-05-26, p. 48
• PC Magazine article about Inset, 1987-02-24, p. 46