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BMP (Microsoft Windows
Device Independent Bitmap)
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Supports color-mapped
and true color images stored as uncompressed or run-length encoded.
BMP was developed by Microsoft Corporation for storing images under
Windows 3.0.
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DIB (Microsoft Windows
Device Independent Bitmap)
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See the description
of BMP.
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GIF (Graphics Interchange
Format)
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Supports only color-mapped
images. GIF is owned by CompuServe, Inc.
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JPEG (Joint Photographic
Experts Group)
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Supports compression
of images with the use of JPEG File Interchange Format (JFIF) software.
JFIF software is developed by the Independent Joint Photographic Experts
Group.
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PBM (Portable Bitmap
Utilities)
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Supports gray, color,
RGB, and bitmap files. The Portable Bitmap Utilities is a set of free
utility programs that were primarily developed by Jeff Poskanzer.
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Kodak Photo CD format,
which supports multiple image resolutions.
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Supports bitmap, color-mapped,
and true color images. PCX and PC Paintbrush are owned by Zsoft Corporation.
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PNG (Portable Network
Graphic)
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Supports truecolor,
gray-scale, and 8-bit images.
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SVG (Scalable Vector
Graphics)
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Is an XML language for
describing two-dimensional vector graphics. SVG supports true color
images and transparency.
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Supports true color
images. Targa is owned by Truevision, Inc.
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TIFF (Tagged Image File
Format)
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Internally supports
a number of compression types and image types, including bitmap, color-mapped,
gray-scale, and true color. TIFF was developed by Aldus Corporation
and Microsoft Corporation.
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Supports bitmap images
only. XBM is owned by MIT X Consortium.
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Supports all X visual
types (bitmap, color-mapped, and true color.) XWD is owned by MIT
X Consortium.
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