What is the difference between .pec and .sixel?
- Extension
- .pec
- .sixel
- Format
- Binary
- Category
- Embroidery
- Raster Image
- Developer
- Pfaff
- Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)
- Description
- The pec file type is a proprietary embroidery format used by Brother, Babylock, and Bernina home embroidery machines. It is used to store machine-readable designs for the machines to stitch out. The files can be edited with a variety of embroidery software programs.
- Created by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), SIXEL is a bitmap image format in an escaped sequence (seen as six pixels high and one pixel wide). You have to convert it into a more accessible format if you don’t have a DEC terminal to view it.
- MIME Type
- application/x-pec-embroidery
- image/vnd.dwg
- Wikipedia
- .sixel on Wikipedia