Comparison of graphics file formats: Difference between revisions

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! Format || Full name || Owner || based onFormat || [[File extension]] || [[MIME]] type || Application || PatentedPatent-<br>free

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! [[Adobe Illustrator Artwork|AI]]

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| application/illustrator,<br />application/postscript

| style="max-width:100px;" | Adobe Illustrator

| {{No|Yes}}

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! [[ANI (file format)|ANI]]

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| image/png

| [[Gecko (layout engine)|Gecko 1.9]] and [[Opera (web browser)|Opera]]

| {{Yes|No}}

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! [[Apple Icon Image]]

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| image/avif

| General purpose

| {{Yespartial|Noroyalty-free}}

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! [[Raw image format|BAY]]

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| image/x-bmp

| Used by many 2D applications.

| {{Yes|No}}

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! [[Better Portable Graphics|BPG]]

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| General purpose

| {{No|Yes}}

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! [[BSAVE (graphics image format)|BSAVE]]

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| application/coreldraw

| style="max-width:100px;" | CorelDRAW

| {{No|Yes}}

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! [[Computer Graphics Metafile|CGM]]

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| image/cpi

| Highly compressed raster imaging format.

| {{No|Yes}}

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! [[Raw image format|DCS]]

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| style="max-width:100px;" | A [[raw image format]] suitable as an archival format and as the native raw format of digital cameras<ref name="DNGintromanufacturers">Adobe: [http://www.adobe.com/products/dng/pdfs/DNG_primer_manufacturers.pdf Introducing the Digital Negative Specification: Information for manufacturers]</ref>

| style="max-width:100px;" | No: no known intellectual property encumbrances or license requirements{{Yes}}<ref name="CinemaDNGnoencumbrance">Adobe Labs: [http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/cinemadng/ CinemaDNG] (last bullet point)</ref>

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! [[DICOM]]

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| style="max-width:100px;" | Wavelet image format used primarily with geo-referenced aerial and satellite imagery

| {{No|Yes}}

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! [[Enhanced Metafile|EMF]]

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| style="max-width:100px;" | General-purpose,

superseded by Jpeg XL

| {{Yes|No}}

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! [[FlashPix|FPX]]

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| application/vnd.gerber

| [[Printed Circuit Board]] or PCB software

| {{Yes|No}}

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! [[GIF]]

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| image/gif

| General purpose, obsolete, now only used for animations

| Expired{{Yes}}

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! [[HEIF]]

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| image/heif, image/heic,<br>image/heic-sequence,<br>image/heif-sequence

|General purpose

|{{No|Yes}}

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! [[HDRi (data format)|HDRi]]

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| image/iges

| [[Computer-aided technologies|CAD/CAM]] [[interoperability]]

| {{Yes|No}}

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! [[ILBM]]

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| image/x-ilbm

| [[Planar (computer graphics)|Planar]] graphics format designed for [[Amiga]] graphics hardware.

| {{Yes|No}}

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! [[JBIG]]

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| image/x-jng

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| {{Yes|No}}

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! [[JPEG]]

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| image/jpeg

| General purpose

| {{Yes}}

| Expired<br>see also [[Forgent#JPEG]]

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! [[JPEG 2000]]

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| image/jp2

| General purpose

| {{partial|royalty-free}}

| Yes<br>no licence costs for part 1

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! [[JPEG-LS]]

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| image/jxl

| style="max-width:100px;" | General-purpose, lossless [[JPEG]] transcoding.

| {{Yes|No}}

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! [[JPEG XT]]

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| image/vnd.ms-photo

| style="max-width:100px;" | General purpose

| Yes ({{partial|royalty-free)}}

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! [[Raw image format|KDC]]

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| video/x-mng

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| {{Yes|No}}

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! [[Raw image format|NEF]]

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| image/x-portable-arbitrarymap

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| {{Yes|No}}

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! [[Netpbm format|PBM]]

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| image/x-portable-bitmap

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| {{Yes|No}}

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! [[PCX]]

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| [[Photograph]]ic images, eventual replacement for [[JPEG]].

| {{Yes|No}}

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! [[Netpbm format|PGM]]

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| image/x-portable-graymap

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| {{Yes|No}}

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! [[Precision Graphics Markup Language|PGML]]

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| {{Yes|No}}

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! [[PICT]]

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| image/pict

| [[Metafile]] for [[Classic Mac OS]], not meant for print publishing.

| Likely <br>expired

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! [[PICtor PIC image format|PICtor]]

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| image/png

| General purpose

| {{Yes|No}}

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! [[Netpbm format|PNM]]

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| image/x-portable-anymap

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| {{Yes|No}}

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! [[PostScript]]

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| image/x-portable-pixmap

| Very easy to understand. Programs to analyze and write to this format are easily written.

| {{Yes|No}}

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! [[Adobe Photoshop#File format|PSD]]

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| image/vnd.adobe.photoshop<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/image/vnd.adobe.photoshop |title=vnd.adobe.photoshop |access-date=2010-01-28 }}</ref>

| Used mainly for storing image manipulation & editing data.

| {{No|Yes}}

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! [[Corel Paint Shop Pro|PSP]]

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| {{Yes|No}}

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! [[Radiance (software)#Scene description format|RAD]]

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| image/svg+xml

| Vector graphics

| {{Yes|No}}

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! [[SWF]]

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| image/tga

| Texture format used by many 3d application.

| {{Yes?}}

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! [[Tagged Image File Format|TIFF]]

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| image/tiff

| Document scanning and imaging format, also functions as a container.

| {{Yes|No}}

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! [[TIFF/EP]]

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| style="max-width:160px" | application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.vmlDrawing

| [[Internet Explorer]], [[Microsoft Office]]

| {{Yes|No}}

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! [[Wireless Application Protocol Bitmap Format|WBMP]]

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| image/vnd.wap.wbmp

| Used in [[Wireless Application Protocol|WAP]]-pages

| {{Yes|No}}

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! [[WebP]]

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| image/webp

| General purpose

| Yes ({{partial|royalty-free)}}

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! [[Windows Metafile|WMF]]

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| application/vnd.xara

| [[Xara Photo & Graphic Designer]]

| {{Yes|No}}

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! [[XBM]]

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