Portable Bitmap Utilities (PBM)

The Portable Bitmap Utilities consists of Portable Greymap Utilities (PGM), Portable Pixmap Utilities (PPM), and Portable Anymap Utilities (PNM). Their source is the UNIX environment.

File constants associated with this file format are:

Constant

Read Support

Write Support

Description

FILE_PBM_BINARY

1 BPP

1 BPP

[103] Portable Bitmap - Binary File.

FILE_PBM_ASCII

1 BPP

1 BPP

[102] Portable Bitmap - ASCII File.

FILE_PGM_BINARY

8 BPP (Grayscale)

8 BPP (Grayscale)

[105] Portable Greymap - Binary File.

FILE_PGM_ASCII

8 BPP (Grayscale)

8 BPP (Grayscale)

[104] Portable Greymap - ASCII File.

FILE_PPM_BINARY

24 BPP

24 BPP

[107] Portable Pixelmap - Binary File.

FILE_PPM_ASCII

24 BPP

24 BPP

[106] Portable Pixelmap - ASCII File.

Required DLL: LFPNM. For a listing of the exact DLLs needed, based on the toolkit version, refer to Files To Be Included With Your Application .

Related Formats: BMP - Windows Bitmap Formats.