What is the difference between .aff and .ras?
- Name
- Acorn Draw
- SUN Rasterfile
- Extension
- .aff
- .ras
- Format
- Binary
- Category
- Vector Image
- Raster Image
- Developer
- August Mueller of Flying Meat Inc.
- Sun
- Description
- Developed in 1980 by the Acorn Draw Program, aff format is meant for vector image visualization. It mainly stores publishing information such as brochures, flyers, logotypes, etc. because of it's high-quality images when printing.
- Originally used on the Sun Microsystems computers, RAS is a raster image format that displays bitmap images. It is popularly used for specific types of research projects and it can be developed in Unix OS as well. It supports 1 and 32-bits per pixel and used RLE compression codec.
- MIME Type
- application/aff
- image/x-cmu-raster
- Wikipedia
- .aff on Wikipedia
- .ras on Wikipedia