ImageGear for .NET
Format Suitability at a Glance

The following table contains the formats that Accusoft Corporation considers most practical for the listed type of data, and can be used as a starting point. You can use a format with the appropriate character depth and one that provides either the most efficient use of space, or the fastest loading and saving capabilities.

Bear in mind that the following table represents recommendations only. To make an informed choice, read about each format in more detail in the section ImageGear Supported File Formats Reference

Image Type Recommended
Colors JPEG, JPEG2000, TIFF, PNG
grayscale/many shades TGA, TIFF, JPEG, DICOM
Monochrome / high resolution TIFF (CCITT Group 3 Compression), TIFF (CCITT Group 4 Compression)
Banking data IBM IOCA
Noisy Color: PNG, TIFF, JPEG
Lossless GIF, TIFF, PNG, JPEG (Lossless JPEG Compression)
Lossy TIFF (JPEG Compression), JPEG
Extra data to store TIFF
Iconic images ICO
Multimedia PNG, GIF, JPEG
Photographic images Adobe PSB, Adobe PSD, PCD, JPEG
Internet images GIF, JPEG, PNG, JPEG2000, WBMP
PC paint programs and/or graphics arts PCX, GEM, TIFF, BMP
X Windows XBM, XPM, XWD
Medical data DICOM
CAD/Vector DWG, DWF, DXF, CGM, DGN, HPGL, U3D
Document processing TIFF, Adobe PDF, Adobe PS, PTOCA, XPS

 

 


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