ART

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PFS: 1st Publisher

Format originally used on the Macintosh (MacPaint?) and later used for PFS: 1st Publisher clip art.

AVI

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Microsoft Audio/Visual Interleaved

AVS

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AVS X image

BMP

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Microsoft Windows bitmap

CGM

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Computer Graphics Metafile

Requires ralcgm to render CGM files.

CMYK

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Raw cyan, magenta, yellow, and black samples

Set -size and -depth to specify the image width, height, and depth.

CUT

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DR Halo

DCM

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Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) image

Used by the medical community for images like X-rays.

DCX

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ZSoft IBM PC multi-page Paintbrush image

DIB

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Microsoft Windows Device Independent Bitmap

DIB is a BMP file without the BMP header. Used to support embedded images in compound formats like WMF.

DPX

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Digital Moving Picture Exchange

EMF

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Microsoft Enhanced Metafile (32-bit)

Only available under Microsoft Windows.

EPDF

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Encapsulated Portable Document Format

EPI

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Adobe Encapsulated PostScript Interchange format

Requires Ghostscript to read.

EPS

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Adobe Encapsulated PostScript

Requires Ghostscript to read.

EPS2

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Adobe Level II Encapsulated PostScript

Requires Ghostscript to read.

EPS3

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Adobe Level III Encapsulated PostScript

Requires Ghostscript to read.

EPSF

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Adobe Encapsulated PostScript

Requires Ghostscript to read.

EPSI

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Adobe Encapsulated PostScript Interchange format

Requires Ghostscript to read.

EPT

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Adobe Encapsulated PostScript Interchange format with TIFF preview

Requires Ghostscript to read.

FAX

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Group 3 TIFF

See TIFF format. Note that FAX machines use non-square pixels which are 1.5 times wider than they are tall but computer displays use square pixels so FAX images may appear to be narrow unless they are explicitly resized using a resize specification of "150x100%".

FIG

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FIG graphics format

Requires TransFig.

FITS

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Flexible Image Transport System

FPX

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FlashPix Format

Requires FlashPix SDK.

GIF

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CompuServe Graphics Interchange Format

8-bit RGB PseudoColor with up to 256 palette entires. Specify the format "GIF87" to write the older version 87a of the format.

Note that since Unisys claims a patent on the LZW algorithm (expiring in the US as of June 2003) used by GIF, ImageMagick binary distributions do not include support for the LZW algorithm so GIF files are written uncompressed. Users are recommended to use the PNG or JPEG formats instead, and should consult the Unisys LZW web page before enabling LZW support.

GPLT

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Gnuplot plot files

Requires gnuplot3.5.tar.Z or later.

GRAY

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Raw gray samples

Use -size and -depth to specify the image width, height, and depth.

HPGL

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HP-GL plotter language

Requires hp2xx-3.2.0.tar.gz

HTML

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Hypertext Markup Language with a client-side image map

Also known as "HTM". Requires html2ps to read.

ICO

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Microsoft icon

Also known as "ICON".

JBIG

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Joint Bi-level Image experts Group file interchange format

Also known as "BIE" and "JBG". Requires jbigkit-1.0.tar.gz.

JNG

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Multiple-image Network Graphics

JPEG in a PNG-style wrapper with transparency. Requires libjpeg and libpng-1.0.2 or later, libpng-1.2.5 or later recommended.

JP2

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JPEG-2000 JP2 File Format Syntax

Requires jasper-1.600.0.zip

JPC

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JPEG-2000 Code Stream Syntax

Requires jasper-1.600.0.zip

JPEG

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Joint Photographic Experts Group JFIF format

Requires jpegsrc.v6b.tar.gz

MAN

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Unix reference manual pages

Requires that GNU groff and Ghostcript are installed.

MAT

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MATLAB image format

MIFF

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Magick image file format

ImageMagick's own image format (with ASCII header) which ensures that no image attributes understood by ImageMagick are lost.

MONO

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Bi-level bitmap in least-significant-byte first order

MNG

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JPEG Network Graphics

Requires libpng-1.0.2 or later, libpng-1.2.5 or later recommended.

MPEG

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Motion Picture Experts Group file interchange format (version 1)

Requires mpeg2vidcodec_v12.tar.gz.

M2V

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Motion Picture Experts Group file interchange format (version 2)

Requires mpeg2vidcodec_v12.tar.gz.

MPC

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Magick Persistent Cache image file format

The native "in-memory" ImageMagick uncompressed file format. This file format is identical to that used by ImageMagick to represent images in memory and is read in "zero time" via memory mapping. The MPC format is not portable and is not suitable as an archive format. It is suitable as an intermediate format for high-performance image processing.

The MPC format requires two files to support one image. When writing the MPC format, a file with extension ".mpc" is used to store information about the image, while a file with extension “.cache” stores the image pixels. The storage space required by a MPC image (or an image in memory) may be calculated by the equation (QuantumDepth*Rows*Columns*5)/8.

MSL

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Magick Scripting Language

MSL is the XML-based scripting language supported by the conjure utility.

MTV

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MTV Raytracing image format

MVG

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Magick Vector Graphics.

The native ImageMagick vector metafile format. A text file containing vector drawing commands accepted by convert's -draw option.

OTB

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On-the-air Bitmap

P7

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Xv's Visual Schnauzer thumbnail format

PALM

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Palm pixmap

PBM

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Portable bitmap format (black and white)

PCD

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Photo CD

The maximum resolution written is 768x512 pixels since larger images require huffman compression (which is not supported).

PCDS

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Photo CD

Decode with the sRGB color tables.

PCL

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HP Page Control Language

For output to HP laser printers.

PCX

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ZSoft IBM PC Paintbrush file

PDB

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Palm Database ImageViewer Format

PDF

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Portable Document Format

Requires Ghostscript to read.

PFA

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Postscript Type 1 font (ASCII)

Opening as file returns a preview image.

PFB

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Postscript Type 1 font (binary)

Opening as file returns a preview image.

PGM

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Portable graymap format (gray scale)

PICON

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Personal Icon

PICT

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Apple Macintosh QuickDraw/PICT file

PIX

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Alias/Wavefront RLE image format

PNG

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Portable Network Graphics

Requires libpng-1.0.2 or later, libpng-1.2.5 or later recommended.

PNM

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Portable anymap

PNM is a family of formats supporting portable bitmaps (PBM) , graymaps (PGM), and pixmaps (PPM). There is no file format associated with pnm itself. If PNM is used as the output format specifier, then ImageMagick automatically selects the most appropriate format to represent the image.

The default is to write the binary version of the formats. Use +compress to write the ASCII version of the formats.

PPM

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Portable pixmap format (color)

PS

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Adobe PostScript file

Requires Ghostscript to read.

PS2

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Adobe Level II PostScript file

Requires Ghostscript to read.

PS3

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Adobe Level III PostScript file

Requires Ghostscript to read.

PSD

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Adobe Photoshop bitmap file

PTIF

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Pyramid encoded TIFF

Multi-resolution TIFF containing successively smaller versions of the image down to the size of an icon. The desired sub-image size may be specified when reading via the -size option.

PWP

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Seattle File Works multi-image file

RAD

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Radiance image file

Requires that ra_ppm from the Radiance software package be installed.

RGB

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Raw red, green, and blue samples

Use -size and -depth to specify the image width, height, and depth.

RGBA

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Raw red, green, blue, and matte samples

Use -size and -depth to specify the image width, height, and depth.

RLA

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Alias/Wavefront image file

RLE

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Utah Run length encoded image file

SCT

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Scitex Continuous Tone Picture

SFW

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Seattle File Works image

SGI

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Irix RGB image

SHTML

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Hypertext Markup Language client-side image map

Used to write HTML clickable image maps based on a the output of montage or a format which supports tiled images such as MIFF.

SUN

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SUN Rasterfile

SVG

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Scalable Vector Graphics

Requires libxml2 and freetype-2. Note that SVG is a very complex specification so support is still not complete.

TGA

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Truevision Targa image

Also known as formats "ICB", "VDA", and "VST".

TIFF

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Tagged Image File Format

Also known as "TIF".

TIM

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PSX TIM file

TTF

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TrueType font file

Requires freetype 2. Opening as file returns a preview image.

TXT

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Raw text file

UIL

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X-Motif UIL table

UYVY

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Interleaved YUV raw image

Use -size command line option to specify width and height.

VICAR

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VICAR rasterfile format

VIFF

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Khoros Visualization Image File Format

WBMP

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Wireless bitmap

Support for uncompressed monochrome only.

WMF

Windows Metafile

Requires libwmf. By default, renders WMF files using the dimensions specified by the metafile header. Use the -density option to adjust the output resolution, and thereby adjust the ouput size. The default output resolution is 72DPI so "-density 144" results in an image twice as large as the default. Use -background color to specify the WMF background color (default white) or -texture filename to specify a background texture image.

WPG

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Word Perfect Graphics File

XBM

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X Windows system bitmap, black and white only

Used by the X Windows System to store monochrome icons.

XCF

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GIMP image

XPM

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X Windows system pixmap

Also known as "PM". Used by the X Windows System to store color icons.

XWD

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X Windows system window dump

Used by the X Windows System to save/display screen dumps.

YUV

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CCIR 601 4:1:1

Use -size command line option to specify width and height.

CAPTION

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Image caption

fixme

CLIPBOARD

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Windows Clipboard

Only available under Microsoft Windows.

FRACTAL

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Plasma fractal image

GRADIENT

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Gradual passing from one shade to another

Returns a rendered gradient image using the specified image size. Specify the desired shading as part of the filename (e.g. "gradient:red-blue"or "gradient:#F00-#00F").

HISTOGRAM

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Histogram of the image

LABEL

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Text image format

Specify the desired text as the filename (e.g. "label:This is a label").

MAP

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Colormap intensities and indices

Set -depth to set the sample size of the intensities; indices are 16-bit if colors > 256.

MATTE

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MATTE format

Write only.

NULL

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NULL image

Useful for creating blank tiles with montage (use "NULL:"). Also useful as an output format when evaluating image read performance.

PLASMA

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Plasma fractal image

PREVIEW

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Show a preview an image enhancement, effect, or f/x

Creates a preview montage of images prepared over a parameteric range in order to assist with parameter selection. Specify the desired preview type via the -preview option).

PRINT

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Send image to your computer printer

Unix users may set the PRINTER (for 'lp') or LPDEST (for 'lpr') environment variables to select the desired printer.

SCAN

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Import image from a scanner device

Requires SANE Specify the device name and path as the filename (e.g. "scan:mustek:/dev/scanner").

STEGANO

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Steganographic image

Use -size command line option to specify width, height, and offset of the steganographic image

TILE

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Tiled image

Create a tiled version of an image at by tiling a image. Use -size to specify the tiled image size. The image is specified similar to "TILE:image.miff".

VID

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Visual Image Directory

Used to create a thumbnailed directory (tiled thumbnails) of a set of images which may be used to select images to view via the display program, or saved to a MIFF or SHTML file.

WIN

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Select image from or display image to your computer screen

Only supported under Microsoft Windows.

X

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Select image from or display image to your X server screen

Also see the import and display programs.

XC

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Canvas image of specified color

Useful to create solid color "canvas" images. Use -size and -depth to specify the image width, height, and depth. Example XC color specifications include "XC:red" and "XC:#FF0000".

GRANITE

Granite texture.

Usually used as a texture image.

LOGO

ImageMagick Logo

The famous wizard.

NETSCAPE

Netscape 216 color cube.

Built-in image which returns an image containing the colors in the 6x6x6 color cube used to render colors on 256 color displays by the Netscape 2.0 browser. Most commonly used with the convert/mogrify -map option to create “web safe” images.

ROSE

Picture of a rose.

Photo taken by Cristy.

8BIM

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Photoshop resource format (binary)

8BIMTEXT

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Photoshop resource format (ASCII)

An ASCII representation of the 8BIM format.

APP1

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Raw application information

APP1JPEG

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Raw JPEG binary data

Profile in JPEG wrapper.

ICC

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International Color Consortium color profile

Also known as "ICM". To read, use -profile with convert.

IPTC

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IPTC Newsphoto (binary)

To read, use -profile with convert

IPTCTEXT

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IPTC Newsphoto (ASCII)

An ASCII representation of the IPTC format.