What is the difference between .pbm and .png?
- Extension
- .pbm
- .png
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Raster Image
- Raster Image
- Developer
- Wolfgang Hoschek
- PNG Development Group
- 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.
- 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-bitmap
- image/png
- Sample
- sample.pbm
- sample.png
- Wikipedia
- .pbm on Wikipedia
- .png on Wikipedia