What is the difference between .sid and .xpm?
- Extension
- .sid
- .xpm
- Format
- Binary
- Text
- Category
- Raster Image
- Raster Image
- Developer
- Extensis
- X Consortium
- 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.
- Bitmap image used by the X Windows System, a (GUI) used to run networked client-server computers; supports monochrome, gray-scale, and color pixmap data; stores pixmaps as static character arrays in the C programming language.
- MIME Type
- image/x-mrsid
- image/x-xbitmap
- Sample
- sample.sid
- sample.xpm
- Wikipedia
- .sid on Wikipedia
- .xpm on Wikipedia