ImageGear Professional for Unix
Format Suitability at a Glance

The following table contains the formats that are considered 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 provides 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
Grayscale/many shades
Monochrome / high resolution
Banking data
Noisy

Color:

Bi-tonal:

Lossless
Lossy
Extra data to store
Iconic images
Facsimiles
Multimedia
Photographic images
Internet images
Mac paint programs
PC paint programs and/or graphics arts
X Windows
Medical data
CAD/Vector
Document processing
Gigabyte-sized images

 

 


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