What is the difference between .vips and .pnm?
- Extension
- .vips
- .pnm
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Raster Image
- Raster Image
- Developer
- VIPS (Visual Information Processing System)
- Jef Poskanzer
- 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.
- The PNM (Portable Any Map Image) file format is a subset of the broader Netpbm format, designed for storing various types of digital images. It acts as an umbrella term for three specific types of grayscale, color, and black-and-white images, represented by PBM (Portable Bitmap), PGM (Portable Graymap), and PPM (Portable Pixmap) formats respectively. PNM files are known for their simplicity and ease of conversion to other image formats.
- MIME Type
- image/vnd.vips
- application/x-portable-anymap
- Sample
- sample.pnm
- Wikipedia
- .vips on Wikipedia
- .pnm on Wikipedia