What is the difference between .g4 and .jif?
- Extension
- .g4
- .jif
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Fax
- Raster Image
- Developer
- Computer Fax Systems (CFS)
- JPEG Group
- Description
- Group 4 (G4) used for black and white lossless compression to maintain high-quality images, commonly used in TIFF format compression by fax machines. A picture is seen as black dots and lines on a blank page; the fewer the dots and lines are, the lesser the file size.
- It is a JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group) creation that is based on 24-bit color pallette and uses a lossy compression algorithm for digital photography.
- MIME Type
- image/g4fax
- image/jpeg
- Wikipedia
- .jif on Wikipedia