- Extension
- .pbm
- .fig
- Format
- Binary
- Category
- Raster Image
- Vector Image
- Developer
- Wolfgang Hoschek
- XFig
- Description
- 1-bit black and white image; formatted in text format; basic raster image format in which each pixel is represented by a byte that contains a 1 or 0; 1 represents black and 0 represents white pixels.
- This is a file used for creating line plots in the form of vector images. They include text objects, splines, forms, arcs, lines and arrows. It can contain a set of colors, images and sketches. It was initially developed for the Xfig drawing program, but today it’s used in other drawing editors.
- MIME Type
- image/x-portable-bitmap
- application/x-xfig
