What is the difference between .fig and .ras?
- Extension
- .fig
- .ras
- Format
- Binary
- Category
- Vector Image
- Raster Image
- Developer
- XFig
- Sun
- 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.
- 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/x-xfig
- image/x-cmu-raster
- Wikipedia
- .fig on Wikipedia
- .ras on Wikipedia