What is the difference between .g4 and .ras?
- Extension
- .g4
- .ras
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Fax
- Raster Image
- Developer
- Computer Fax Systems (CFS)
- Sun
- 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.
- 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
- image/g4fax
- image/x-cmu-raster
- Wikipedia
- .ras on Wikipedia