ImageGear Professional for Unix
Format Suitability at a Glance
| ImageGear Professional v18.2 > User Guide > File Format Reference > 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 |