What is the difference between .rgb and .g4?
- Name
- RGB Bitmap
- Group 4 FAX
- Extension
- .rgb
- .g4
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Raster Image
- Fax
- Developer
- SGI
- Computer Fax Systems (CFS)
- Description
- Color bitmap image format created by Silicon Graphics (SGI); generic format used for saving RGB color images on SGI workstations; recognized by various image viewing programs.
- Group 4 (G4) used for black and white lossless compression to maintain high-quality images, commonly used in TIFF format compression by fax machines. A picture is seen as black dots and lines on a blank page; the fewer the dots and lines are, the lesser the file size.
- MIME Type
- image/x-rgb
- image/g4fax
- Sample
- sample.rgb
- Wikipedia
- .rgb on Wikipedia