What is the difference between .ppm and .vips?
- Extension
- .ppm
- .vips
- Format
- Text
- Binary
- Category
- Raster Image
- Raster Image
- Developer
- Jef Poskanzer
- VIPS (Visual Information Processing System)
- 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.
- VIPS is a libvips file format mainly used for calculations, but it can also store images. The main advantage is that it has no size limit; it's fast and straightforward. Nonetheless, most applications can't view it, so converting it to a more popular format is the only way to work around it.
- MIME Type
- image/x-portable-pixmap
- image/vnd.vips
- Sample
- sample.ppm
- Wikipedia
- .ppm on Wikipedia
- .vips on Wikipedia