What is the difference between .vips and .g4?
- Name
- VIPS Image
- Group 4 FAX
- Extension
- .vips
- .g4
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Raster Image
- Raster Image
- Developer
- VIPS (Visual Information Processing System)
- Computer Fax Systems (CFS)
- Description
- VIPS is a libvips file format mainly used for calculations, but it can also store images. The main advantage is that it has no size limit; it's fast and straightforward. Nonetheless, most applications can't view it, so converting it to a more popular format is the only way to work around it.
- 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/vnd.vips
- image/g4fax
- Wikipedia
- .vips on Wikipedia