What is the difference between .pbm and .ppm?
- Extension
- .pbm
- .ppm
- Format
- Binary
- Text
- Category
- Raster Image
- Raster Image
- Developer
- Wolfgang Hoschek
- Jef Poskanzer
- 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 PPM file is a 24-bit color image formatted using a text format. It stores each pixel with a number from 0 to 65536, which specifies the color of the pixel. PPM files also store the image height and width, whitespace data, and the maximum color value.
- MIME Type
- image/x-portable-bitmap
- image/x-portable-pixmap
- Sample
- sample.pbm
- sample.ppm
- Wikipedia
- .pbm on Wikipedia
- .ppm on Wikipedia