File Formats: Portable Bitmap Utilities (PBM/PGM/PPM/PNM)

The Portable Bitmap Utilities consists of Portable Greymap Utilities (PGM), Portable Pixmap Utilities (PPM), and Portable Anymap Utilities (PNM). Their source is the UNIX environment.

File constants associated with this file format are:

Constant	Read Support	Write Support	Description
PbmBinary	1 BPP	1 BPP	Portable Bitmap - Binary File.
PbmAscii	1 BPP	1 BPP	Portable Bitmap - ASCII File.
PgmBinary	8, 16 BPP (Grayscale)	8 BPP (Grayscale)	Portable Greymap - Binary File.
PgmAscii	8, 16 BPP (Grayscale)	8 BPP (Grayscale)	Portable Greymap - ASCII File.
PpmBinary	24 BPP	24 BPP	Portable Pixelmap - Binary File.
PpmAscii	24 BPP	24 BPP	Portable Pixelmap - ASCII File.

Required DLL: Leadtools.Codecs.Pbm.Dll. For a listing of the exact DLLs needed, based on the toolkit version, refer to Files To Be Included With Your Application .

Related Formats: BMP - Windows Bitmap Formats.

Platform Support

Extension	Module	Value	Win32	Win64	Net32	Net64	MimeType	Friendly Name
PbmAscii	PBM	102	✔	✔	✔	✔	image/x-portable-anymap	PBM ASCII
PbmBinary	PBM	103	✔	✔	✔	✔	image/x-portable-anymap	PBM Binary
PgmAscii	PGM	104	✔	✔	✔	✔	image/x-portable-anymap	PGM ASCII
PgmBinary	PGM	105	✔	✔	✔	✔	image/x-portable-anymap	PGM Binary
PpmAscii	PPM	106	✔	✔	✔	✔	image/x-portable-anymap	PPM ASCII
PpmBinary	PPM	107	✔	✔	✔	✔	image/x-portable-anymap	PPM Binary