What is the difference between .ppm and .ras?
- Extension
- .ppm
- .ras
- Format
- Text
- Binary
- Category
- Raster Image
- Raster Image
- Developer
- Jef Poskanzer
- Sun
- 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.
- Originally used on the Sun Microsystems computers, RAS is a raster image format that displays bitmap images. It is popularly used for specific types of research projects and it can be developed in Unix OS as well. It supports 1 and 32-bits per pixel and used RLE compression codec.
- MIME Type
- image/x-portable-pixmap
- image/x-cmu-raster
- Sample
- sample.ppm
- Wikipedia
- .ppm on Wikipedia
- .ras on Wikipedia