- Extension
- .paint
- .dpx
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Raster Image
- Raster Image
- Developer
- Apple Inc.
- SMPTE
- Description
- The Mac Paint file, commonly associated with the file extension ".mac", originated from MacPaint, an early graphics editing program developed by Apple Inc. for the original Macintosh computer in 1984. This file type was designed to store black and white bitmap graphics, allowing users to create and manipulate digital images using a variety of tools and brushes. Mac Paint files were known for their simplicity and were widely used for basic graphic editing and illustration tasks during the early days of personal computing. Despite its historical significance, the Mac Paint format has largely been superseded by more advanced graphic file formats that support color and higher resolutions.
- Kodak raster image format used for transferring film images to a digital medium with no loss of quality; also referred to as a "Digital Moving Picture Exchange Bitmap;" often exported as a frame sequence which contains a series of still images.
- MIME Type
- image/x-macpaint
- image/x-dpx
