Supported Image formats
The image conversion tool that comes with the Image distribution
uses the ImageMagick package to convert a whole range of image
formats to hidump. Listed are the file extension in bold face.
They are recognized case-independently, e.g. image.dat and image.DAT are
both recognized as an Amersham file and converted to Hidump.
- DAT Vax Bland file, written by Amersham scanner
- ABI ABI Gel file, written by the ABI software
- ALPHA ALPHA image
- AVS AVS X image
- BMP MS Windows bitmap image file
- CMYK image of raw cyan, magenta, yellow and black
- FITS FITS image file
- GIF CompuServe Graphics image file
- IRIS as RGB
- JPEG as JPG
- JPG JPEG image (only available with HaveJPEG option)
- MIFF ImageMagick's own image format
- MTV MTV image
- PBM portable bitmap image
- PCX ZSoft IBM PC Paintbrush file
- PGM portable greymap image
- PICT Apple Mac QuickDraw/PICT file
- PPM portable pixmap image (colour)
- PNM portable anymap image
- RAS SUN raster image
- RGB SGI RGB image file
- RLE run-length encoded Utah Raster Toolkit image file
- SUN as RAS
- TGA Truevision Targa image file
- TIF Tagged image file format (only available with HaveTIFF option)
- TIFF as TIF
- VICAR VICAR image
- VIFF Khoros Visualization image file
- XBM X11 bitmap image
- XPM X11 pixmap image
- XV as VIFF
- YUV image with raw Y, U, and V bytes