What is the difference between .pam and .png48?
- Extension
- .pam
- .png48
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Raster Image
- Raster Image
- Developer
- Bryan Henderson
- PNG Working Group
- Description
- The PAM image format is a lowest common denominator 2 dimensional map format. It is designed to be used for any of myriad kinds of graphics, but can theoretically be used for any kind of data that is arranged as a two dimensional rectangular array.
- A PNG file is an image file stored in the Portable Network Graphic (PNG) format. It contains a bitmap of indexed colors and uses lossless compression, similar to a .GIF file but without copyright limitations. PNG files are commonly used to store graphics for web images.
- MIME Type
- image/x-portable-arbitrarymap[3]
- image/png
- Sample
- sample.pam
- sample.png48
- Wikipedia
- .pam on Wikipedia
- .png48 on Wikipedia