- Extension
- .wmz
- .ras
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Vector Image
- Raster Image
- Developer
- Microsoft
- Sun
- Description
- A WMZ file is a Windows Metafile (.WMF) compressed with GZIP. Microsoft Office and Visio save vector graphics this way to reduce their size. Windows Media Player skins also use the .wmz extension, but those are ZIP archives and are a different format.
- Originally used on the Sun Microsystems computers, RAS is a raster image format that displays bitmap images. It is popularly used for specific types of research projects and it can be developed in Unix OS as well. It supports 1 and 32-bits per pixel and used RLE compression codec.
- MIME Type
- application/x-msmetafile
- image/x-cmu-raster
