ImageGear .NET v25.2 - Updated
Developer Guide / File Formats and Compressions
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    File Formats and Compressions
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    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 Format R
    CRW Canon CRW Format R
    CUR Windows cursor RW
    CUT Dr. Halo RW
    DCRAW Digital 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 Format R
    HD Photo HD Photo (Windows Media Photo) RW
    Headerless Headerless Format R
    ICO ICO (Windows icon) RW
    IFF Interchange File Format RW
    Imacon Raw Imacon 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 Format R
    LeicaRAW Leica/Panasonic Format R
    MEF Mamiya Format R
    MODCA IBM MO:DCA (Mixed Object Document Content Architecture) RW
    MOS Leaf Format R
    MRW Konica Minolta Format R
    NCR NCR RW
    NEF Nikon Format R
    ORF Olympus Format R
    PBM Portable Bitmap File Format RW
    PCD Kodak Photo CD R
    PCX PC Paintbrush File Format RW
    PEF Pentax/Samsung Format R
    PGM Portable Graymap File Format RW
    PhaseOne Raw Phase One 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 Format R
    RAS Sun Raster Data Format RW
    Scitex CT Scitex CT RW
    SGI Silicon Graphics Image RW
    SonyRaw Sony 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
    DOCM Office Open Word XML Macro-enabled Format.  R
    DOTX Office Open Word 2007 or newer template file type.  R
    DOTM Office Open Word 2007 or newer Macro-enabled template file type.  R
    PPTX Office Open XML PowerPoint Format  R
    PPT Microsoft Office PowerPoint 97-2003 Format  R
    PPTM Office Open PowerPoint XML Macro-enabled Format.  R
    POTX Office Open PowerPoint template file type.  R
    POTM Office Open PowerPoint Macro-enabled template file type.  R
    PPSX Office Open PowerPoint Slide Show Format.  R
    PPSM Office Open PowerPoint Macro-enabled Slide Show Format.  R
    RTF Rich Text Format  R
    XLSX Office Open XML Excel Format  R
    XLS Microsoft Office Excel 97-2003 Format  R
    XLSM Office Open Excel XML Macro-enabled Format.  R
    XLTX Office Open Spreadsheet template file type.  R
    XLTM Office Open XML Macro-enabled template file type.  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: