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File Formats: Portable Bitmap Utilities (PBM/PGM/PPM/PNM)

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
PbmBinary 1 BPP 1 BPP Portable Bitmap - Binary File.
PbmAscii 1 BPP 1 BPP Portable Bitmap - ASCII File.
PgmBinary 8 BPP (Grayscale) 8 BPP (Grayscale) Portable Greymap - Binary File.
PgmAscii 8 BPP (Grayscale) 8 BPP (Grayscale) Portable Greymap - ASCII File.
PpmBinary 24 BPP 24 BPP Portable Pixelmap - Binary File.
PpmAscii 24 BPP 24 BPP Portable Pixelmap - ASCII File.

Required DLL: Leadtools.Codecs.Pbm.Dll. 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.

Platforms: .NET 2/3, .NET 4, Silverlight, Silverlight Windows Phone 7