| Tag |
Description |
| AVS |
AVS X image file |
| BMP |
Microsoft Windows bitmap image file |
| CGM |
Computer Graphics Metafile |
| CMYK |
Raw cyan, magenta, yellow, and black bytes |
| DCX |
ZSoft IBM PC multi-page Paintbrush file |
| DIB |
Microsoft Windows bitmap image file |
| EPS |
Adobe Encapsulated PostScript file |
| EPS2 |
Adobe Level II Encapsulated PostScript file |
| EPSF |
Adobe Encapsulated PostScript file |
| EPSI |
Adobe Encapsulated PostScript Interchange format |
| FAX |
Group 3 |
| FITS |
Flexible Image Transport System |
| GIF |
CompuServe graphics interchange format; 8-bit color |
| GIF87 |
CompuServe graphics interchange format; 8-bit color (version 87a) |
| GRADATION |
gradual passing from one shade to another. Specify the desired shading
as the filename (e.g. gradation:red-blue). |
| GRANITE |
granite texture. |
| GRAY |
Raw gray bytes |
| HDF |
Hierarchical Data Format |
| HISTOGRAM |
Histogram of the image |
| HTML |
Hypertext Markup Language with a client-side image map |
| JBIG |
Joint Bi-level Image experts Group file interchange format |
| JPEG |
Joint Photographic Experts Group JFIF format; compressed 24-bit color |
| MAP |
colormap intensities and indices |
| MATTE |
Raw matte bytes |
| MIFF |
Magick image file format |
| MPEG |
Motion Picture Experts Group file interchange format |
| MTV |
MTV Raytracing image format |
| NETSCAPE |
Netscape 216 color cube. |
| NULL |
NULL image |
| PBM |
Portable bitmap format (black and white) |
| PCD |
Photo CD |
| PCL |
Page Control Language |
| PCX |
ZSoft IBM PC Paintbrush file |
| PDF |
Portable Document Format |
| PGM |
Portable graymap format (gray scale) |
| PICT |
Apple Macintosh QuickDraw/PICT file |
| PLASMA |
plasma fractal image. Specify the base color as the filename
(e.g. plasma:blue-yellow). Use fractal to initialize
to a random value (e.g. plasma:fractal). |
| PNG |
Portable Network Graphics |
| PNM |
Portable anymap |
| PPM |
Portable pixmap format (color) |
| PS |
Adobe PostScript file |
| PS2 |
Adobe Level II PostScript file |
| RAD |
Radiance image file |
| RGB |
Raw red, green, and blue bytes |
| RGBA |
Raw red, green, blue, and matte bytes |
| RLA |
Alias/Wavefront image file; read only |
| RLE |
Utah Run length encoded image file; read only |
| SGI |
Irix RGB image file |
| SHTML |
Hypertext Markup Language with a client-side image map |
| SUN |
SUN Rasterfile |
| TEXT |
raw text file; read only |
| TGA |
Truevision Targa image file |
| TIFF |
Tagged Image File Format |
| TILE |
tile image with a texture |
| UYVY |
16bit/pixel interleaved YUV (e.g. used by AccomWSD) |
| VICAR |
read only |
| VID |
Visual Image Directory |
| VIFF |
Khoros Visualization image file |
| X |
select image from X server screen |
| XC |
constant image of X server color |
| XBM |
X Windows system bitmap, black and white only |
| XPM |
X Windows system pixmap file (color) |
| XWD |
X Windows system window dump file (color) |
| YUV |
CCIR 601 4:1:1 file |
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