Format

Mode

Description

Notes

ART

R

PFS: 1st Publisher

 

AVI

R

Microsoft Audio/Visual Interleaved

 

AVS

RW

AVS X image

 

BMP

RW

Microsoft Windows bitmap

 

CGM

R

Computer Graphics Metafile

Zur zeit noch nicht unterstützt.

CMYK

RW

Raw cyan, magenta, yellow, and black samples

Set -size and -depth to specify the image width, height, and depth.

CUT

R

DR Halo

 

DCM

R

Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) image

Used by the medical community for images like X-rays.

DCX

RW

ZSoft IBM PC multi-page Paintbrush image

 

DIB

RW

Microsoft Windows Device Independent Bitmap

DIB is a BMP file without the BMP header. Used to support embedded images in compound formats like WMF.

DPX

RW

Digital Moving Picture Exchange

 

EPDF

RW

Encapsulated Portable Document Format

 

EPI

RW

Adobe Encapsulated PostScript Interchange format

 

EPS

RW

Adobe Encapsulated PostScript

 

EPS2

W

Adobe Level II Encapsulated PostScript

 

EPS3

W

Adobe Level III Encapsulated PostScript

 

EPSF

RW

Adobe Encapsulated PostScript

 

EPSI

RW

Adobe Encapsulated PostScript Interchange format

 

EPT

RW

Adobe Encapsulated PostScript Interchange format with TIFF preview

 

FAX

RW

Group 3 TIFF

See TIFF format. Note that FAX machines use non-square pixels which are 1.5 times wider than they are tall but computer displays use square pixels so FAX images may appear to be narrow unless they are explicitly resized using a resize specification of "150x100%".

FIG

R

FIG graphics format

Zur zeit noch nicht unterstützt.

FITS

RW

Flexible Image Transport System

 

FPX

RW

FlashPix Format

Zur zeit noch nicht unterstützt.

GIF

RW

CompuServe Graphics Interchange Format

8-bit RGB PseudoColor with up to 256 palette entires. Specify the format "GIF87" to write the older version 87a of the format.

Note that since Unisys claims a patent on the LZW algorithm (expiring in the US as of June 2003) used by GIF, this program do not include support for the LZW algorithm so GIF files are written uncompressed. Users are recommended to use the PNG or JPEG formats instead, and should consult the Unisys LZW web page before enabling LZW support.

GPLT

R

Gnuplot plot files

Zur zeit noch nicht unterstützt.

GRAY

RW

Raw gray samples

Use -size and -depth to specify the image width, height, and depth.

HPGL

R

HP-GL plotter language

Zur zeit noch nicht unterstützt.

HTML

RW

Hypertext Markup Language with a client-side image map

Zur zeit noch nicht unterstützt.

ICO

R

Microsoft icon

Also known as "ICON".

JBIG

RW

Joint Bi-level Image experts Group file interchange format

Zur zeit noch nicht unterstützt.

JNG

RW

Multiple-image Network Graphics

JPEG in a PNG-style wrapper with transparency.

JP2

RW

JPEG-2000 JP2 File Format Syntax

Zur zeit noch nicht unterstützt.

JPC

RW

JPEG-2000 Code Stream Syntax

Zur zeit noch nicht unterstützt.

JPEG

RW

Joint Photographic Experts Group JFIF format

 

MAN

R

Unix reference manual pages

 

MAT

R

MATLAB image format

 

MIFF

RW

Magick image file format

 

MONO

RW

Bi-level bitmap in least-significant-byte first order

 

MNG

RW

JPEG Network Graphics

 

MPEG

RW

Motion Picture Experts Group file interchange format (version 1)

Zur zeit noch nicht unterstützt.

M2V

RW

Motion Picture Experts Group file interchange format (version 2)

Zur zeit noch nicht unterstützt.

MTV

RW

MTV Raytracing image format

 

OTB

RW

On-the-air Bitmap

 

P7

RW

Xv's Visual Schnauzer thumbnail format

 

PALM

RW

Palm pixmap

 

PBM

RW

Portable bitmap format (black and white)

 

PCD

RW

Photo CD

The maximum resolution written is 768x512 pixels since larger images require huffman compression (which is not supported).

PCDS

RW

Photo CD

Decode with the sRGB color tables.

PCL

W

HP Page Control Language

For output to HP laser printers.

PCX

RW

ZSoft IBM PC Paintbrush file

 

PDB

RW

Palm Database ImageViewer Format

 

PDF

RW

Portable Document Format

 

PFA

R

Postscript Type 1 font (ASCII)

Opening as file returns a preview image.

PFB

R

Postscript Type 1 font (binary)

Opening as file returns a preview image.

PGM

RW

Portable graymap format (gray scale)

 

PICON

RW

Personal Icon

 

PICT

RW

Apple Macintosh QuickDraw/PICT file

 

PIX

R

Alias/Wavefront RLE image format

 

PNG

RW

Portable Network Graphics

 

PNM

RW

Portable anymap

PNM is a family of formats supporting portable bitmaps (PBM) , graymaps (PGM), and pixmaps (PPM). There is no file format associated with pnm itself. If PNM is used as the output format specifier, then the most appropriate format to represent the image will be selected automatically.

The default is to write the binary version of the formats. Use +compress to write the ASCII version of the formats.

PPM

RW

Portable pixmap format (color)

 

PS

RW

Adobe PostScript file

 

PS2

RW

Adobe Level II PostScript file

 

PS3

RW

Adobe Level III PostScript file

 

PSD

RW

Adobe Photoshop bitmap file

 

PTIF

RW

Pyramid encoded TIFF

Multi-resolution TIFF containing successively smaller versions of the image down to the size of an icon. The desired sub-image size may be specified when reading via the -size option.

PWP

R

Seattle File Works multi-image file

 

RAD

R

Radiance image file

Zur zeit noch nicht unterstützt.

RGB

RW

Raw red, green, and blue samples

Use -size and -depth to specify the image width, height, and depth.

RGBA

RW

Raw red, green, blue, and matte samples

Use -size and -depth to specify the image width, height, and depth.

RLA

R

Alias/Wavefront image file

 

RLE

R

Utah Run length encoded image file

 

SCT

R

Scitex Continuous Tone Picture

 

SFW

R

Seattle File Works image

 

SGI

RW

Irix RGB image

 

SHTML

W

Hypertext Markup Language client-side image map

Used to write HTML clickable image maps based on a the output of montage or a format which supports tiled images such as MIFF.

SUN

RW

SUN Rasterfile

 

SVG

RW

Scalable Vector Graphics

Zur zeit noch nicht unterstützt.

TGA

RW

Truevision Targa image

Also known as formats "ICB", "VDA", and "VST".

TIFF

RW

Tagged Image File Format

Also known as "TIF".

TIM

R

PSX TIM file

 

TTF

R

TrueType font file

Opening as file returns a preview image.

TXT

RW

Raw text file

 

UIL

W

X-Motif UIL table

 

UYVY

RW

Interleaved YUV raw image

Use -size command line option to specify width and height.

VICAR

RW

VICAR rasterfile format

 

VIFF

RW

Khoros Visualization Image File Format

 

WBMP

RW

Wireless bitmap

Support for uncompressed monochrome only.

WMF

 

Windows Metafile

Zur zeit noch nicht unterstützt.

WPG

R

Word Perfect Graphics File

 

XBM

RW

X Windows system bitmap, black and white only

Used by the X Windows System to store monochrome icons.

XCF

R

GIMP image

 

XPM

RW

X Windows system pixmap

Also known as "PM". Used by the X Windows System to store color icons.

XWD

RW

X Windows system window dump

Used by the X Windows System to save/display screen dumps.

YUV

RW

CCIR 601 4:1:1

Use -size command line option to specify width and height.