What is the difference between .xbm and .ppm?
- Extension
- .xbm
- .ppm
- Format
- Text
- Text
- Category
- Raster Image
- Raster Image
- Developer
- The X Consortium
- Jef Poskanzer
- 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.
- A PPM file is a 24-bit color image formatted using a text format. It stores each pixel with a number from 0 to 65536, which specifies the color of the pixel. PPM files also store the image height and width, whitespace data, and the maximum color value.
- MIME Type
- image/x-xbitmap
- image/x-portable-pixmap
- Sample
- sample.xbm
- sample.ppm
- Wikipedia
- .xbm on Wikipedia
- .ppm on Wikipedia