What is the difference between .xbm and .g4?
- Extension
- .xbm
- .g4
- Format
- Text
- Binary
- Category
- Raster Image
- Fax
- Developer
- The X Consortium
- Computer Fax Systems (CFS)
- Description
- Bitmap image used by the X Window System (X11), a graphical user interface (GUI) used to manage networked client-server computers; stores a monochrome image that is written as plain text in the C programming language.
- 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-xbitmap
- image/g4fax
- Sample
- sample.xbm
- Wikipedia
- .xbm on Wikipedia