Supported Formats

Note, these are formats supported by ImageMagick, a "robust collection of tools and libraries to read, write, and manipulate an image in many image formats."  Not every feature in ImageMagick is supported or available.  These specifications are subject to change at any time.  This page is provided only for your information and does not represent built-in features of Project Dogwaffle or PD Pro.  Only a subset of these formats are supported for saving.

For more information about ImageMagick, please visit http://www.imagemagick.org/

 R=Read/W=Write.
 

Formats

ART
R
PFS: 1st Publisher
Format originally used on the Macintosh (MacPaint?) and later used for PFS: 1st Publisher clip art.

AVS
RW
AVS X image


BMP
RW
Microsoft Windows bitmap

CGM
R
Computer Graphics Metafile
Requires ralcgm to render CGM files.

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

EMF
R
Microsoft Enhanced Metafile (32-bit)
Only available under Microsoft Windows.

EPDF
RW
Encapsulated Portable Document Format

EPI
RW
Adobe Encapsulated PostScript Interchange format
Requires Ghostscript to read.

EPS
RW
Adobe Encapsulated PostScript
Requires Ghostscript to read.

EPS2

W
Adobe Level II Encapsulated PostScript
Requires Ghostscript to read.

EPS3
W
Adobe Level III Encapsulated PostScript
Requires Ghostscript to read.

EPSF
RW
Adobe Encapsulated PostScript
Requires Ghostscript to read.

EPSI
RW
Adobe Encapsulated PostScript Interchange format
Requires Ghostscript to read.

EPT
RW
Adobe Encapsulated PostScript Interchange format with TIFF preview
Requires Ghostscript to read.

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

FITS
RW
Flexible Image Transport System

FPX
RW
FlashPix Format

GPLT
R
Gnuplot plot files

GRAY
RW
Raw gray samples
Use -size and -depth to specify the image width, height, and depth.

HTML
RW
Hypertext Markup Language with a client-side image map
Also known as "HTM".

ICO
R
Microsoft icon

JBIG
RW
Joint Bi-level Image experts Group file interchange format

JP2
RW
JPEG-2000 JP2 File Format Syntax

JPC
RW
JPEG-2000 Code Stream Syntax

JPEG
RW
Joint Photographic Experts Group JFIF format

MAT
R
MATLAB image format

MIFF
RW
Magick image file format

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


MNG
RW
Multiple-image Network Graphics

M2V
RW
Motion Picture Experts Group file interchange format (version 2)

MTV
RW
MTV Raytracing image format

MVG
RW
Magick Vector Graphics.
The native ImageMagick vector metafile format. A text file containing vector drawing commands accepted by convert's -draw option.

OTB
RW
On-the-air Bitmap

P7
RW
Xv's Visual Schnauzer thumbnail format

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

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

PPM
RW
Portable pixmap format (color)

PS
RW
Adobe PostScript file
Requires Ghostscript to read.

PS2
RW
Adobe Level II PostScript file
Requires Ghostscript to read.


PS3
RW
Adobe Level III PostScript file
Requires Ghostscript to read.

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

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

TGA
RW
Truevision Targa image
Also known as formats "ICB", "VDA", and "VST".

TIFF
RW
Tagged Image File Format

TIM
R
PSX TIM file

TTF
R
TrueType font file

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

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.