ImageGear for .NET
Format Suitability at a Glance
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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, JPEG 2000, 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, JPEG 2000, 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 |