Literature

• tweedy & reddy: graphics file format page
  www.dcs.ed.ac.uk/.../index-hi.html

Some graphic formats (alphabetically sorted):

BMP

...MS-Windows Bitmap

EPSF

...Encapsulated Postscript

GIF

...Graphics Interchange Format

IFF

...Interchange File Format

JP(E)G

...Joint Photographic Experts Group

PNG

...Portable Network Graphics

PNM=PBM+

...enhanced portable bitmap

PBM

...Monochrome bitmap

PGM

...Grayscale bitmap

PPM

...Full color images

PNM

...Anymap

TGA

...Targa File Format

TIFF

...Tag Image File Format

XPM

...X Pixmap Format

Now in more detail some selected formats: