- Extension
- .map
- .xwd
- Format
- Binary
- Category
- Other
- Raster Image
- Developer
- ColorgrafX
- X Window System
- Description
- This format is used as the color palette format for a variety of operating system image editors. It is used to store font templates in text and graphic editors. It allows you to change color intensity and transparency levels.
- The XWD (X Windows Dump) image file format is a native graphic format associated with the X Window System, which is a windowing system for bitmap displays commonly used in UNIX and Linux environments. An XWD file is essentially a dump or snapshot of what is being displayed on a screen or part of it at a given moment. It stores image data in an uncompressed form, including the header information that contains details about the image's size, color, and format.
- MIME Type
- application/vnd.xworlds.colormap
- image/x-xwindowdump
