- Extension
- .sun
- .g4
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Raster Image
- Fax
- Developer
- Sun Microsystems
- Computer Fax Systems (CFS)
- Description
- Bitmap image generated by a Sun Microsystems workstation; native graphic format used by the Sun Unix operating system; uses a standard image format that can be read by several graphics 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-sun-raster
- image/g4fax
