- Extension
- .fig
- .jbg
- Format
- Binary
- Category
- Vector Image
- Raster Image
- Developer
- XFig
- Joint Bi-level Image Experts Group (JBIG)
- Description
- This is a file used for creating line plots in the form of vector images. They include text objects, splines, forms, arcs, lines and arrows. It can contain a set of colors, images and sketches. It was initially developed for the Xfig drawing program, but today it’s used in other drawing editors.
- Created by JBIG (Joint Bi-level Image Experts Group), JBG is a lossless file format that contains both colored and monochrome images. Commonly used to compress fax images, and it has better compression than G3 and G4 compression codecs.
- MIME Type
- application/x-xfig
- image/jbig
