What is the difference between .ppm and .pict?
- Extension
- .ppm
- .pict
- Format
- Text
- Binary
- Category
- Raster Image
- Raster Image
- Developer
- Jef Poskanzer
- Apple
- 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.
- Image file saved in the Macintosh PICT format; may contain both vector and bitmap data and can use thousands of colors; also supports RLE (Run-length encoding) and JPEG compression to reduce the file size.
- MIME Type
- image/x-portable-pixmap
- image/pict
- Sample
- sample.ppm
- sample.pict
- Wikipedia
- .ppm on Wikipedia
- .pict on Wikipedia