What is the difference between .ras and .jpeg?
- Name
- SUN Rasterfile
- JPEG Image
- Extension
- .ras
- .jpeg
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Raster Image
- Raster Image
- Developer
- Sun
- Joint Photographic Experts Group
- Description
- 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.
- A JPEG file is an image saved in a compressed graphic format standardized by the Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG). It supports up to 24-bit color and is compressed using lossy compression, which may noticeably reduce the image quality if high amounts of compression are used. JPEG files are commonly used for storing digital photos and web graphics.
- MIME Type
- image/x-cmu-raster
- image/jpeg
- Sample
- sample.jpeg
- Wikipedia
- .ras on Wikipedia
- .jpeg on Wikipedia