What is the difference between .sid and .ppm?
- Extension
- .sid
- .ppm
- Format
- Binary
- Text
- Category
- Raster Image
- Raster Image
- Developer
- Extensis
- Jef Poskanzer
- Description
- Image created using Multi-resolution Seamless Image Database (MrSID) compression, which was developed by Extensis for compressing large images; commonly used to partition and store large Geographic Information Systems (GIS) images.
- 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.
- MIME Type
- image/x-mrsid
- image/x-portable-pixmap
- Sample
- sample.sid
- sample.ppm
- Wikipedia
- .sid on Wikipedia
- .ppm on Wikipedia