What is the difference between .ras and .png?
- Extension
- .ras
- .png
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Raster Image
- Raster Image
- Developer
- Sun
- PNG Development 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 PNG file is an image file stored in the Portable Network Graphic (PNG) format. It contains a bitmap of indexed colors and uses lossless compression, similar to a .GIF file but without copyright limitations. PNG files are commonly used to store graphics for web images.
- MIME Type
- image/x-cmu-raster
- image/png
- Sample
- sample.png
- Wikipedia
- .ras on Wikipedia
- .png on Wikipedia