Files and File Formats

LEADTOOLS currently supports over 150 different image formats and sub formats, and continues to expand support for new formats and new format sub-types in response to the ever changing demands of developers worldwide.

With over 15 years in the field and thousands of customers in all areas of applications development, LEAD Technologies always strives to provide the most complete support for the tremendous variety of image formats available.

Each image format has its own unique set of load/save/display options, which may encompass varying types and/or degrees of compression, a range of image information bit-depths, progressive (multi-pass) image display, the ability to maintain multi-page or multi-channel images, animations, or non-image data, just to name a few.

LEAD constantly adds support for new file formats, and "flavor" support to formats already supported, giving your applications the flexibility to support almost any image you encounter. You can count on LEADTOOLS to have the most thorough and highest performance implementation of image format specifications, and you can depend on LEADTOOLS to offer the most flexibility and control of these options to you, the software developer.

Visit LEAD’s website at http://www.leadtools.com/formats.htm for a complete, current list of LEADTOOLS’ file format support.

Key Features:

RASTER Formats: File formats in this list are loaded and treated as raster bitmap images in memory.

Color and Grayscale

Miixed Raster Content
Bitonal (Black and White)

MULTIMEDIA Formats: File formats in this list are loaded as multimedia objects by using a LEADTOOLS Multimedia product.

VECTOR Formats: File formats in this list are loaded and treated as vector objects in memory using LEADTOOLS Vector Imaging Pro.

RASTER Formats

Color and Grayscale

AFP—AFP PTOCA Format	LMB—LMB Format
ANI—Windows Animated Cursor	MODCA—MODCA PTOCA Format
ANI—Windows Animated Cursor	MPG—MPG Format
AVI—Windows AVI Format	NITF—National Imagery Transmission Format *****
BMP—Bitmap Formats	PBM, PPM, PNM and PGM—Portable Bitmap Utilities
CAL—Cals Format	PCD—Kodak Photo CD Format (32-bit only)
CGM—Computer Graphics Metafile *	PCL—Printer Command Language Format **
CIN—Kodak Cineon	PCT—Macintosh Pict Format *
CLP—Microsoft Windows Clipboard	PCX and DCX—PCX Formats
CMW—LEAD Wavelet	PDF—Portable Document Format *****
CMX—Corel Presentation Exchange Format *	PLT—PLT *
CRW—Canon RAW Format (32-bit only)	PNG—Portable Network Graphics Format
CUR—Cursors	PNG—Portable Network Graphics Format
CUT—Dr. Halo	PSD—Adobe PhotoShop Format
DCR, DCS—Professional Digital Camera (32-bit only)	PSP—Paint Shop Pro Format
DGN—DGN *	RAS—SUN Raster Format
DIC, DCM—DICOM Format **	RAW—Uncompress Raw Data
DJVU—DJVU Format	RTF—Rich Text Format
DRW—DRaWing *	SCT—Scitex Continuous Tone Format
DWF—DWF Format *	SFF—Structured Fax Format
DWG—DWG Format *	SGI—Silicon Graphics Image Format
DXF—Drawing Interchange Format **	SHP—ESRI Shapefile Format *
ECW—Enhanced Compressed Wavelet	SID—32-bit only—MrSID Format
EPS, PS—Encapsulated PostScript	SVG—Scalable Vector Graphics *
FIT—Flexible Image Transport System	TFX—Internet Fax Format
FLC and FLI—Flic Animation	TGA—Truevision TARGA Format
FPX—Flashpix Format ****	TIFF and JPG—Exif Formats
GBR—Gerber *	TIFF—With and Without LZW Compression
GIF—Graphics Interchange Format (with LZW Compression)	TXT—Text Format
HDP—JPEG XR / Windows HD Photo Format	VWPG—WordPerfect Vector Format *
ICO—VISTA Icon Format	WBMP—Wireless Bitmap Format
IFF—Interchange File Formats	WFX—WinFax Format
J2K—J2K Format	WMF and EMF—Windows Metafile Formats **
JBG—JBIG Format ***	WMP—Wireless Bitmap
JP2—JPEG 2000 Format ***	WMZ—Compressed Windows Metafile
JPG and CMP—JPEG and LEAD Compressed	WPG—WordPerfect Format
JPX—JPEG 2000 (Part 6)	XPM—XPicMap
KDC—Kodak Digital Camera (32-bit only)	XWD—X WindowDump
LMA—LMA Format	XPS—XML Paper Specification

Mixed Raster Content

MRC (MRC)	LEAD MRC (MRC)
TIF MRC (TIF)	TIF LEAD MRC (TIF)

Bitonal (Black and White)

ABIC—ABIC Format	JBIG2— JBIG2 Format***
ABC—LEAD ABC Format	Laser View LaserData (Read Only)
AWD—Microsoft Fax (32-bt only)	MAC, IMG, and MSP— Miscellaneous 1-Bit Formats
CMP—LEAD 1-Bit Format	SMP— SMP Format
IOCA/MODCA—Image Object Content Architecture Format	TIFF CCITT and Other FAX Formats
ITG—Intergraph Format	XBM— XBitMap Format

MULTIMEDIA Formats

LEADTOOLS Multimedia	Includes all the filters and codecs you need to create multimedia converters, multimedia players and applications that capture from multimedia devices.
LEADTOOLS DVD Module	Includes all the filters, codecs, and multiplexers/demultiplexers you need to create, edit, playback, and burn DVD images.
LEADTOOLS Video Streaming Module	Includes all the filters, codecs, and multiplexers/demultiplexers you need to serve Videos on Demand or create Video Conferencing applications.

VECTOR Formats *

CGM—Computer Graphics Metafile *	PCT—Macintosh Pict Format *
CMX—Corel Presentation Exchange Format *	PCL—Printer Command Language Format **
DGN—Microstation DGN *	PLT—PLT *
DRW—DRaWing *	SHP—ESRI Shape Format *
DXF—Drawing Interchange Format **	SVG—Scalable Vector Graphic****
DWF—DWF Format *	TIFF DXF *
DWG—DWG Format *	WMF and EMF—Windows Metafile Formats **
GBR—Gerber *	VWPG—WordPerfect Format *
NAP—NAPLPS	VEC—LEADTOOLS Vector Dump Format

* Requires the purchase of a LEADTOOLS Vector imaging product.

** DICOM and DICOM-related formats require purchase of a LEADTOOLS Medical Imaging product.

*** FlashPix, JBIG, JBIG2, and JPEG 2000 write support require purchase of a LEADTOOLS Document, Vector, or Medical imaging product (JPEG 2000 read support is included with all products).

**** FlashPix requires purchase of a LEADTOOLS Raster Pro, Document, Vector, or Medical imaging product).

***** NITF support requires purchase of the LEADTOOLS NITF Plug-in. PDF support requires purchase of the LEADTOOLS PDF Plug-in.

Supported Platforms:

Files and File Formats API

Files and File Formats Class Library

Files and File Formats .NET and COM