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File Formats and Compressions
User Guide > File Formats and Compressions

This section provides detailed information about the image formats and compressions that ImageGear supports.

This topic provides information about the following:

Supported Formats and Compressions

ImageGear supports the following formats and compressions in the following categories:

ImageGear .NET also provides support for 100+ Digital Cameras.

Raster Color and Grayscale

Format Full Name Support
BMP Microsoft Windows Bitmap RW
CLP Windows Clipboard RW
CR2 Canon CR2 Camera Raw Format R
CRW Canon CRW Camera Raw Format R
CUR Windows cursor RW
CUT Dr. Halo RW
DCRAW Digital camera RAW format R
DCX Paintbrush (Intel multi-page FAX format) RW
DIB DIB (Microsoft Windows Device Independent Bitmap) RW
DICOM DICOM (Digital Imaging & Communication in Medicine) RW
DNG Digital Negative file format R
GEM GEM Raster R
GIF CompuServe Graphics Interchange Format (GIF) RW
Hasselblad Raw Hasselblad Camera Raw Format R
HD Photo HD Photo (Windows Media Photo) RW
Headerless Camera Raw Headerless Camera Raw Format R
ICO ICO (Windows icon) RW
IFF Interchange File Format RW
Imacon Raw Imacon Camera Raw Format R
IMG Xerox 9700 graphic image (IMG) R
IOCA IBM IOCA (Image Object Content Architecture) RW
JPEG JPEG File Interchange Format RW
JPEG 2000 JPEG 2000 RW
JPX JPEG 2000 Extensions RW
KodakRAW Kodak Camera Raw Format R
LeicaRAW Leica/Panasonic Camera Raw Format R
MEF Mamiya Camera Raw Format R
MODCA IBM MO:DCA (Mixed Object Document Content Architecture) RW
MOS Leaf Camera Raw Format R
MRW Konica Minolta Camera Raw Format R
NCR NCR RW
NEF Nikon Camera Raw Format R
ORF Olympus Camera Raw Format R
PBM Portable Bitmap File Format RW
PCD Kodak Photo CD R
PCX PC Paintbrush File Format RW
PEF Pentax/Samsung Camera Raw Format R
PGM Portable Graymap File Format RW
PhaseOne Raw Phase One Camera Raw Format R
PNG Portable Network Graphics RW
PNM Portable Any-Map File Format RW
PPM Portable Pixmap File Format RW
PSB Adobe Photoshop Big RW
PSD Adobe Photoshop RW
PTOCA Presentation Text Object Content Architecture R
RAF Fujifilm Camera Raw Format R
RAS Sun Raster Data Format RW
Scitex CT Scitex CT RW
SGI Silicon Graphics Image RW
SonyRaw Sony Camera Raw Format R
TGA Truevision Targa RW
TIFF Tagged Image File Format RW
WPG WordPerfect Graphics Metafile R
XPM X PixMap RW
XPS XML Paper Specification RW
XWD X Window Dump RW

Raster Bitonal (1-Bit)

Format Full Name Support
BTR Brooktrout RW
CAL CALS Raster RW
IMR IMRS-Raster image R
IMT IMNET (Medical Image Format) RW
KFX Kofax Group4 image R
LV Lazer View format R
MSP MS Paint R
WBMP Wireless Bit-Map RW
XBM X BitMap RW

Vector

Format Full Name Support
CGM  Computer Graphics Metafile RW
DGN  MicroStation Drawing RW
DWF  Design Web Format RW
DWG  AutoDesk AutoCAD RW
DXF  AutoDesk AutoCAD RW
HPGL  Hewlett Packard Graphics Language RW
PDF Adobe Portable Document Format RW
SVG  Scalable Vector Graphics RW
U3D  Universal 3D RW

Office

Format Full Name Support
DOCX Office Open XML Word Format  R
DOC Microsoft Office Word 97-2003 Format  R
PPTX Office Open XML PowerPoint Format  R
PPT Microsoft Office PowerPoint 97-2003 Format  R
XLSX Office Open XML Excel Format  R
XLS Microsoft Office Excel 97-2003 Format  R

Barcode

Detailed information about using Barcodes is in the Barcodes section.

Format Full Name 1D 2D
2D Barcodes      
Aztec AztecBarcode   R
DataMatrix DataMatrixBarcode   RW
PDF417 PDF417Barcode   RW
QRcode QRCodeBarcode   R
1D Barcodes      
Add-2 Add2Barcode R R
Add-5 Add5Barcode R R
Airline 2 of 5 IATA2of5Barcode R R
Australian Post 4-State Barcode AustralianPost4StateBarcode R R
BCD Matrix BCDMatrixBarcode R R
Codabar CodabarBarcode RW RW
Code 128 (A,B,C) Code128Barcode RW RW
Code 2 of 5 Industry2of5Barcode R R
Code 32 Code32Barcode R R
Code 39 Code39Barcode RW RW
Code 39 Extended Code39ExtendedBarcode RW RW
Code 93 Code93Barcode RW RW
Code 93 Extended Code93ExtendedBarcode RW RW
DataLogic 2 of 5 DataLogic2of5Barcode R R
EAN 128 (GS1, UCC) EAN128Barcode RW RW
EAN-13 EAN13Barcode RW RW
EAN-8 EAN8Barcode RW RW
Industrial 2 of 5 Industry2of5Barcode RW RW
Intelligent Mail (OneCode) IntelligentMailBarcode R R
Interleaved 2 of 5 Interleaved2of5Barcode RW RW
Invert 2 of 5 Invert2of5Barcode R R
ITF-14 / SCC-14 Interleaved2of5Barcode R R
Matrix 2 of 5 Matrix2of5Barcode R R
Patch Codes PatchCodeBarcode RW RW
PostNet PostNetBarcode R R
Royal Mail (RM4SCC) RoyalPost4StateBarcode R R
UCC 128 EAN128Barcode R R
UPC-A UPCABarcode RW RW
UPC-E UPCEBarcode RW RW

Compressions

Format Full Name Formats Supported
ASCII Compression American Standard Code for Information Interchange PBM, PGM, PNM, PPM
CCITT Group 3 Compression CCITT Group 3 BTR, IBM IOCA, IBM MO:DCA, IMT, LV, NCR, PDF, PS, TIFF
CCITT Group 3 2D Compression CCITT Group 3 2D BTR, IBM IOCA, IBM MO:DCA, Adobe PDF, PS, TIFF
CCITT Group 4 Compression CCITT Group 4 CAL, IMR, KFX, BTR, IBM IOCA, IBM MO:DCA, IMT, LV, NCR, Adobe PDF, PS, TIFF
Deflate Compression Deflate Compression PDF, PS, TIFF, PNG
HD Photo Compression Microsoft HD Photo HD Photo
Huffman Compression Huffman Encoding NCR, PCD, TIFF, KodakRAW, NEF, PEF
IBM MMR Compression IBM Modified Modified Read IBM IOCA, IBM MO:DCA

JPEG Compressions

JPEG Compression

JPEG 2000 Compression JPEG 2000 Wavelet Compression JPEG 2000, JPXDICOM, PDF, PS
LZW (Lempel-Ziv-Welch) Compression Lempel-Zif-Welch (LZW) Compression GIF, PDF, PS, TIFF
Packbits Compression Packed Bits Compression PSD, TIFF
RAW Compression RAW compression (Uncompressed Binary Compression) PBM, PGM, PNM, PPM
RLE Compression  Run Length Encoding Compression BMP, CLP, CUT, DCX, DICOM, GEM, IFF, MSP, PCX, PDF, PS, RAS, SGI, TGAWPG

Encoding vs. Compressing

These two words are often used interchangeably in discussions of graphics file formats. Encoding is actually a broad term under which compression falls. For the sake of clarity, use these terms separately with the following intended meanings: