This document lists and briefly describes various graphic file formats, including vector formats like EPS, and raster formats like JPEG, GIF, BMP, and TIFF. It notes key features of different formats such as color depth, compression, and which applications commonly support each format. Popular formats for the web like JPEG and GIF are outlined, as are formats used by specific programs or platforms.

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2.  Paint Shop Pro animation file (Paint Shop
Pro Products)

3.  CALS files are used mainly for document
imaging and only store black-and-white, 1-
bit image data.

4.  Developed by CompuServe, GIF uses a
palette of up to 256 colors and is a popular
choice for Web site graphics.

5.  Used by Electronic Arts' Deluxe Paint
package. LBM files use an IFF Bitmap
header and IFF color map. As Electronic
Arts progressed towards being a game
developer, Deluxe Paint was aban

6.  EPS is supported by most illustration and
page layout programs.

7.  The GEM image format is the saved bitmap
file used by GEM Paint and Ventura
Publisher

8.  IFFs are 8 to 24 bit indexed color graphics
or 8 bit interleave audio and are used on the
Classic Amiga platform. Audio IFF files
usually use a .snd extension.

9.  Joint Photographer's Exchange graphic
(JPEG) is a compressed raster image format
file. JPEGs are popular for Web-based
distribution and display of photographic
quality images.

10.  The JPEG-2000 image compression system
has a rate-distortion advantage over the
original JPEG. It allows extraction of
different resolutions, pixel fidelities, regions
of interest, components, and more, all from
a single compressed bitstream. JPEG-2000
also has options for lossy and lossless
compression.

11.  Apple Macintosh Metafile supported by
most Mac programs.

12.  MAC files are used in the Macintosh
MacPaint application. The MAC format
requires always an image width of 576 pixels
and a height of 720 lines.

13.  Mono bitmap format used mainly for Black-
and-white drawings and clip art.

14.  Photoshop file (Adobe Photoshop Products)

15.  Files are created by JefPoskanzer'sPBMPlus
Portable Bitmap Utilities. The portable
bitmap format is a lowest common
denominator monochrome file format.

16.  Files are created by JefPoskanzer'sPBMPlus
Portable Bitmap Utilities. The portable
graymap format is a lowest common
denominator grayscale file format.

17.  by JefPoskanzer'sPBMPlus Portable Bitmap
Utilities. The portable pixmap format is a
lowest common denominator color image file
format.

18.  A flexible basic file format for transferring
files between applications and computer
platforms. This format consists of a stream
of bytes describing the color information in
the file.

19.  SG is the file extension for the Image file
associated with SnapGraphix.

20.  The Sun Raster format is the native bitmap
format on the Sun UNIX platforms. It is a
simple bitmap format with wide distribution
as it is supported by Sun OS and many
UNIX based applications.

21.  TIFF is mainly used for exchanging
documents between different applications
and different computer platforms. It
supports the LZW method compression for
image types.

22.  Developed by Truevision Inc. TGA files is a
file format that will support images suitable
for display on Targa hardware but is
supported by many applications on a wide
range of platforms.

23.  Graphics file format used to exchange
graphics information between Microsoft
Windows applications.

24.  The RLE format is a variation of the
Windows BMP format that offers asome
image compression. In Windows it can be
used to create compressed wallpaper files or
to replace the opening Windows logo screen.

25.  Windows Bitmap file with color options of
Mono, 4-bit, 8-bit, 24-bit. Compression is
RLE, Huffman 1D, or uncompressed. This
format is supported by Intel machines
running OS/2, Microsoft Windows, Windows
NT, Windows 95, and MS-DOS.

26.  WBMP is WAP (Wireless Application
Protocol) graphic format optimized for
mobile computing devices.

27.  Bitmap graphics file format, originally
developed by Z-Soft for use with PC-
Paintbrush. This file format is now used and
generated by many applications and
scanners.

28.  Raster (bitmap) graphics are stored as pixels. When
 they are viewed together they form a picture.
Vector graphics are drawings stored as objects, such
 as lines and curves.
 Inkscape would be a vector graphics editor.
 Gimp and Photoshop would be used for raster images.