What is the difference between .ras and .pcd?
- Name
- SUN Rasterfile
- Photo CD
- Extension
- .ras
- .pcd
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Raster Image
- Raster Image
- Developer
- Sun
- Kodak
- 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.
- This format was developed by Kodak in order to store images on optical or other media. It is used as a format for archiving scanned documents on Kodak devices. It encodes images in 24-bit color and supports resolutions of up to 6144x4096 pixels.
- MIME Type
- image/x-cmu-raster
- image/x-photo-cd
- Sample
- sample.pcd
- Wikipedia
- .ras on Wikipedia
- .pcd on Wikipedia