What is the difference between .pnt and .bmp?
- Extension
- .pnt
- .bmp
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Raster Image
- Raster Image
- Developer
- Apple Inc.
- Microsoft
- Description
- The PNT file type is primarily associated with MacPaint, an early graphics painting software developed by Apple Inc. for their Macintosh computers. Introduced in the mid-1980s, MacPaint was among the first programs to bring bitmap graphics editing to a personal computer, allowing users to create and edit black-and-white images with a simplistic user interface. PNT files store the bitmap images created in MacPaint, encapsulating the simplistic yet iconic graphics that were a hallmark of early Macintosh applications. Despite its discontinuation, the PNT format remains a piece of digital art history from the dawn of personal computing.
- A BMP file is an uncompressed raster image comprised of a rectangular grid of pixels. It contains a file header (bitmap identifier, file size, width, height, color options, and bitmap data starting point) and bitmap pixels, each with a different color.
- MIME Type
- image/x-macpaint
- image/bmp
- Sample
- sample.bmp
- Wikipedia
- .pnt on Wikipedia
- .bmp on Wikipedia