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Picture Exchange
The de facto standard for DOS paint programs.
PCX (Picture Exchange) was one of the first widely accepted standards for DOS imaging. Created by ZSoft for their PC Paintbrush software, it became the native format for Windows 3.0 Paintbrush and supported the evolution of PC graphics hardware from monochrome CGA to 256-color VGA and eventually 24-bit TrueColor.
PCX uses a header containing the version, dimensions, and palette information, followed by image data compressed using a simple Run-Length Encoding (RLE) scheme. This scheme was very efficient for the simple graphics of the 80s (large areas of flat color) but is poor for complex photographs. 256-color palettes are often appended at the end of the file.
Established in 1985. It enjoyed a decade of dominance before being displaced by BMP (on Windows), GIF (on the web), and JPEG (for photos). It is now largely obsolete but still recognized by many tools due to its historical significance.
Portable Pixel Map
The standard uncompressed color format of the Netpbm suite.
PPM (Portable Pixel Map) is the color counterpart to PGM and PBM. It is the most widely used format in the Netpbm library for storing full-color RGB images. Like its siblings, it is designed for extreme simplicity and ease of interchange between Unix tools.
PPM files come in two flavors: P3 (ASCII) and P6 (Binary). - **ASCII (P3)**: Pixels are written as readable RGB triplets (e.g., `255 0 0` for red). - **Binary (P6)**: Pixels are raw byte triplets. The header is minimal: Magic Number, Width, Height, Maxval. It does not support alpha channels (use PAM for that) or compression.
Developed by Jef Poskanzer in 1991 to bring color support to the pbmplus (Netpbm) toolkit. It became the lingua franca for Unix graphics utilities.
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