What is the difference between .ppm and .pbm?
- Extension
- .ppm
- .pbm
- Format
- Text
- Binary
- Category
- Raster Image
- Raster Image
- Developer
- Jef Poskanzer
- Wolfgang Hoschek
- Description
- 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.
- 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
- image/x-portable-pixmap
- image/x-portable-bitmap
- Sample
- sample.ppm
- sample.pbm
- Wikipedia
- .ppm on Wikipedia
- .pbm on Wikipedia