- Extension
- .phc
- .pbm
- Format
- Binary
- Category
- Embroidery
- Raster Image
- Developer
- Pfaff
- Wolfgang Hoschek
- Description
- The PHC (Home Embroidery Format) is a proprietary file format used for storing embroidery designs. It is used by many different types of home embroidery machines, including Brother and Janome. The format stores information about the design, such as stitch type, thread color and the coordinates of the stitches. It can also contain text and images.
- 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.
- MIME Type
- application/octet-stream
- image/x-portable-bitmap
