- Extension
- .cals
- .xbm
- Format
- Binary
- Text
- Category
- Raster Image
- Raster Image
- Developer
- United States Department of Defense (DoD)
- The X Consortium
- Description
- The CALS Raster Graphic File, having the extension .cals, is a type of image file format primarily used for the storage and exchange of digital images, especially in the context of technical and engineering documents. Developed in the mid-1980s by the United States Department of Defense, the CALS format was part of an initiative to standardize electronic document management and interchange, particularly for military and government applications.
- Bitmap image used by the X Window System (X11), a graphical user interface (GUI) used to manage networked client-server computers; stores a monochrome image that is written as plain text in the C programming language.
- MIME Type
- image/cals
- image/x-xbitmap
