{
 "id": "magick-image-file-format",
 "name": "Magick Image File Format",
 "category": "image",
 "identifiers": {
  "extensions": [
   "miff",
   "mif"
  ],
  "mime": [
   "image/miff",
   "image/x-miff"
  ],
  "puid": [
   "fmt/930"
  ],
  "wikidata": [
   "Q6731061"
  ],
  "signatures": [
   {
    "name": "Magick Image File Format",
    "sequences": [
     {
      "position": "bof",
      "offset": 0,
      "max_offset": 256,
      "pattern": "69643d496d6167654d616769636b{0-1024}3a"
     }
    ]
   }
  ]
 },
 "status": "writable",
 "summary": "The Magick Image File Format (MIFF) is ImageMagick's own format for storing bitmap images. It stores all metadata known to ImageMagick.",
 "tools": [
  {
   "name": "ImageMagick",
   "url": "https://imagemagick.org",
   "license": "ImageMagick License",
   "open_source": true,
   "reads": true,
   "writes": true
  },
  {
   "name": "ImageMagick (WebAssembly)",
   "url": "https://github.com/dlemstra/magick-wasm",
   "license": "Apache-2.0",
   "open_source": true,
   "reads": true,
   "writes": true
  },
  {
   "name": "Abydos",
   "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q133445760",
   "reads": true,
   "writes": false,
   "license": "GNU Lesser General Public License",
   "open_source": true
  },
  {
   "name": "Converseen",
   "url": "https://converseen.fasterland.net/",
   "reads": true,
   "writes": false,
   "license": "GNU General Public License, version 3.0",
   "open_source": true
  },
  {
   "name": "ExifTool",
   "url": "https://exiftool.org/",
   "reads": true,
   "writes": false,
   "license": "Artistic License / GNU General Public License, version 1.0 or later",
   "open_source": true
  },
  {
   "name": "Image Alchemy",
   "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28205547",
   "reads": true,
   "writes": false
  },
  {
   "name": "PuriFile",
   "url": "https://purifile.com",
   "reads": true,
   "writes": false
  }
 ],
 "projects": [
  {
   "name": "File Formats Wiki",
   "url": "http://fileformats.archiveteam.org/wiki/MIFF",
   "kind": "wiki"
  },
  {
   "name": "PRONOM fmt/930",
   "url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/PRONOM/fmt/930",
   "kind": "format-doc"
  },
  {
   "name": "Wikidata Q6731061",
   "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6731061",
   "kind": "wiki"
  }
 ],
 "provenance": {
  "sources": [
   "converters",
   "engines",
   "ffw",
   "pronom",
   "wikidata"
  ]
 },
 "updated": "2026-10-25",
 "conversions": [
  {
   "to": "portable-network-graphics",
   "tool": "ImageMagick",
   "command": "convert in.miff out.png",
   "fidelity": "lossless",
   "losses": "Pixels kept; some metadata, colour profiles or layers may be dropped.",
   "url": "https://imagemagick.org"
  },
  {
   "to": "tagged-image-file-format",
   "tool": "ImageMagick",
   "command": "convert in.miff out.tif",
   "fidelity": "lossless",
   "losses": "Pixels kept; some metadata, colour profiles or layers may be dropped.",
   "url": "https://imagemagick.org"
  },
  {
   "to": "jpeg-file-interchange-format-1-02",
   "tool": "ImageMagick",
   "command": "convert in.miff out.jpg",
   "fidelity": "lossy",
   "losses": "Lossy compression.",
   "url": "https://imagemagick.org"
  },
  {
   "to": "webp",
   "tool": "ImageMagick",
   "command": "convert in.miff out.webp",
   "fidelity": "lossy",
   "losses": "Lossy compression.",
   "url": "https://imagemagick.org"
  },
  {
   "to": "gif",
   "tool": "ImageMagick",
   "command": "convert in.miff out.gif",
   "fidelity": "lossy",
   "losses": "Reduced to 256 colours.",
   "url": "https://imagemagick.org"
  },
  {
   "to": "portable-network-graphics",
   "tool": "ImageMagick (WebAssembly)",
   "command": "In the browser at https://openformatdb.org/convert/, or convert_file in the OpenFormatDB MCP server",
   "fidelity": "lossless",
   "losses": "Pixels kept; some metadata, colour profiles or layers may be dropped.",
   "url": "https://openformatdb.org/convert/",
   "engine": "imagemagick"
  },
  {
   "to": "jpeg-file-interchange-format-1-02",
   "tool": "ImageMagick (WebAssembly)",
   "command": "In the browser at https://openformatdb.org/convert/, or convert_file in the OpenFormatDB MCP server",
   "fidelity": "lossy",
   "losses": "Lossy compression.",
   "url": "https://openformatdb.org/convert/",
   "engine": "imagemagick"
  },
  {
   "to": "webp",
   "tool": "ImageMagick (WebAssembly)",
   "command": "In the browser at https://openformatdb.org/convert/, or convert_file in the OpenFormatDB MCP server",
   "fidelity": "lossy",
   "losses": "Lossy compression.",
   "url": "https://openformatdb.org/convert/",
   "engine": "imagemagick"
  },
  {
   "to": "av1-image-file-format",
   "tool": "ImageMagick (WebAssembly)",
   "command": "In the browser at https://openformatdb.org/convert/, or convert_file in the OpenFormatDB MCP server",
   "fidelity": "lossy",
   "losses": "Lossy compression.",
   "url": "https://openformatdb.org/convert/",
   "engine": "imagemagick"
  },
  {
   "to": "jpeg-xl",
   "tool": "ImageMagick (WebAssembly)",
   "command": "In the browser at https://openformatdb.org/convert/, or convert_file in the OpenFormatDB MCP server",
   "fidelity": "lossy",
   "losses": "Lossy compression.",
   "url": "https://openformatdb.org/convert/",
   "engine": "imagemagick"
  },
  {
   "to": "gif",
   "tool": "ImageMagick (WebAssembly)",
   "command": "In the browser at https://openformatdb.org/convert/, or convert_file in the OpenFormatDB MCP server",
   "fidelity": "lossy",
   "losses": "Reduced to 256 colours.",
   "url": "https://openformatdb.org/convert/",
   "engine": "imagemagick"
  },
  {
   "to": "tagged-image-file-format",
   "tool": "ImageMagick (WebAssembly)",
   "command": "In the browser at https://openformatdb.org/convert/, or convert_file in the OpenFormatDB MCP server",
   "fidelity": "lossless",
   "losses": "Pixels kept; some metadata, colour profiles or layers may be dropped.",
   "url": "https://openformatdb.org/convert/",
   "engine": "imagemagick"
  },
  {
   "to": "windows-bitmap",
   "tool": "ImageMagick (WebAssembly)",
   "command": "In the browser at https://openformatdb.org/convert/, or convert_file in the OpenFormatDB MCP server",
   "fidelity": "lossless",
   "losses": "Pixels kept; some metadata, colour profiles or layers may be dropped.",
   "url": "https://openformatdb.org/convert/",
   "engine": "imagemagick"
  },
  {
   "to": "icon-file-format",
   "tool": "ImageMagick (WebAssembly)",
   "command": "In the browser at https://openformatdb.org/convert/, or convert_file in the OpenFormatDB MCP server",
   "fidelity": "lossy",
   "losses": "Icons are limited to 256 × 256 pixels.",
   "url": "https://openformatdb.org/convert/",
   "engine": "imagemagick"
  },
  {
   "to": "quite-ok-image-format",
   "tool": "ImageMagick (WebAssembly)",
   "command": "In the browser at https://openformatdb.org/convert/, or convert_file in the OpenFormatDB MCP server",
   "fidelity": "lossless",
   "losses": "Pixels kept; some metadata, colour profiles or layers may be dropped.",
   "url": "https://openformatdb.org/convert/",
   "engine": "imagemagick"
  },
  {
   "to": "pdf",
   "tool": "ImageMagick (WebAssembly)",
   "command": "In the browser at https://openformatdb.org/convert/, or convert_file in the OpenFormatDB MCP server",
   "fidelity": "partial",
   "losses": "The image is embedded in a PDF page.",
   "url": "https://openformatdb.org/convert/",
   "engine": "imagemagick"
  }
 ],
 "aliases": [],
 "structure": [],
 "parsers": [],
 "samples": [],
 "claims": [],
 "verification": []
}