- Extension
- .vips
- .ptiff
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Raster Image
- Raster Image
- Developer
- VIPS (Visual Information Processing System)
- Lead Technologies
- 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.
- Ptiff is a type of image file that is created by compressing a TIFF (Tagged Image File Format) image using a wavelet-based encoding, known as pyramidal encoding. This type of file can store both lossy and lossless compressed images and is often used for storing large-scale images such as aerial photographs or medical images.
- MIME Type
- image/vnd.vips
- image/x-ptiff
