{
 "id": "netpbm-formats",
 "name": "Netpbm formats",
 "category": "image",
 "identifiers": {
  "extensions": [
   "pbm",
   "pgm",
   "ppm",
   "pnm",
   "ph"
  ],
  "mime": [
   "image/x-portable-anymap",
   "image/x-portable-bitmap",
   "image/x-portable-graymap",
   "image/x-portable-pixmap"
  ],
  "wikidata": [
   "Q17154458"
  ],
  "puid": [
   "fmt/408",
   "x-fmt/164",
   "fmt/409",
   "fmt/407",
   "fmt/406",
   "x-fmt/178"
  ]
 },
 "status": "writable",
 "summary": "family of image data formats",
 "tools": [
  {
   "name": "ImageMagick (WebAssembly)",
   "url": "https://github.com/dlemstra/magick-wasm",
   "license": "Apache-2.0",
   "open_source": true,
   "reads": true,
   "writes": true
  },
  {
   "name": "ABViewer",
   "url": "https://cadsofttools.com/products/abviewer/",
   "reads": true,
   "writes": false
  },
  {
   "name": "Converseen",
   "url": "https://converseen.fasterland.net/",
   "reads": true,
   "writes": false,
   "license": "GNU General Public License, version 3.0",
   "open_source": true
  },
  {
   "name": "DevIL",
   "url": "http://openil.sourceforge.net/",
   "reads": true,
   "writes": true,
   "license": "GNU Lesser General Public License, version 2.1",
   "open_source": true
  },
  {
   "name": "F-Spot",
   "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q948619",
   "reads": true,
   "writes": false,
   "license": "GNU General Public License / MIT License",
   "open_source": true
  },
  {
   "name": "GDAL",
   "url": "https://gdal.org",
   "reads": true,
   "writes": true,
   "license": "MIT License",
   "open_source": true
  },
  {
   "name": "GIMP 2.0.2",
   "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q64739349",
   "reads": true,
   "writes": true
  },
  {
   "name": "GNU Ocrad",
   "url": "https://www.gnu.org/software/ocrad/",
   "reads": true,
   "writes": false,
   "license": "GNU General Public License, version 2.0 or later",
   "open_source": true
  },
  {
   "name": "Image Alchemy",
   "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28205547",
   "reads": true,
   "writes": false
  },
  {
   "name": "JavaView",
   "url": "http://www.javaview.de/",
   "reads": false,
   "writes": true
  },
  {
   "name": "Kakadu",
   "url": "http://www.kakadusoftware.com/",
   "reads": true,
   "writes": false
  },
  {
   "name": "LibreOffice Draw",
   "url": "https://www.libreoffice.org/discover/draw/",
   "reads": true,
   "writes": false,
   "license": "Mozilla Public License, version 2.0",
   "open_source": true
  },
  {
   "name": "Mathematica",
   "url": "https://www.wolfram.com/mathematica/",
   "reads": true,
   "writes": true,
   "license": "proprietary license"
  },
  {
   "name": "MediaRich Server",
   "url": "https://equilibrium.com/mediarichserver/",
   "reads": true,
   "writes": false
  },
  {
   "name": "Netpbm",
   "url": "http://netpbm.sourceforge.net/",
   "reads": true,
   "writes": true,
   "license": "GNU General Public License, version 2.0",
   "open_source": true
  },
  {
   "name": "OpenJPEG",
   "url": "https://www.openjpeg.org",
   "reads": true,
   "writes": false,
   "license": "2-clause BSD License",
   "open_source": true
  },
  {
   "name": "OutGuess",
   "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q66671819",
   "reads": false,
   "writes": true,
   "license": "4-clause BSD License",
   "open_source": true
  },
  {
   "name": "PaintShop Pro X4",
   "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q110977057",
   "reads": true,
   "writes": true
  },
  {
   "name": "PaintShop Pro X6 Ultimate",
   "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q113679458",
   "reads": true,
   "writes": false
  },
  {
   "name": "Photopea",
   "url": "https://www.photopea.com/",
   "reads": true,
   "writes": false
  },
  {
   "name": "PicaJet",
   "url": "http://picajet.com/",
   "reads": true,
   "writes": false,
   "license": "freeware"
  },
  {
   "name": "PuriFile",
   "url": "https://purifile.com",
   "reads": true,
   "writes": false
  },
  {
   "name": "Q1047199",
   "url": "https://imagemagick.org",
   "reads": true,
   "writes": false,
   "license": "ImageMagick License",
   "open_source": true
  },
  {
   "name": "Q122459461",
   "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q122459461",
   "reads": false,
   "writes": true
  },
  {
   "name": "Q122522973",
   "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q122522973",
   "reads": true,
   "writes": false
  },
  {
   "name": "Q130252332",
   "url": "https://sorairolake.github.io/qrtool/",
   "reads": true,
   "writes": false,
   "license": "Apache Software License 2.0 / Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International / MIT License",
   "open_source": true
  },
  {
   "name": "Q141647655",
   "url": "https://getartcraft.com/apps/photocraft",
   "reads": true,
   "writes": true,
   "license": "Apache Software License 2.0 / MIT License",
   "open_source": true
  },
  {
   "name": "SimThyr",
   "url": "http://simthyr.sourceforge.net",
   "reads": false,
   "writes": true,
   "license": "BSD licenses",
   "open_source": true
  },
  {
   "name": "VideoStudio X7",
   "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q113644652",
   "reads": true,
   "writes": false
  },
  {
   "name": "VYM",
   "url": "https://www.insilmaril.de/vym/",
   "reads": true,
   "writes": false,
   "license": "GNU General Public License, version 2.0",
   "open_source": true
  },
  {
   "name": "zgv",
   "url": "http://www.svgalib.org/rus/zgv/",
   "reads": true,
   "writes": false,
   "license": "GNU General Public License",
   "open_source": true
  },
  {
   "name": "Zoner Photo Studio",
   "url": "http://www.zoner.com",
   "reads": true,
   "writes": true
  }
 ],
 "projects": [
  {
   "name": "File Formats Wiki",
   "url": "http://fileformats.archiveteam.org/wiki/Netpbm_formats",
   "kind": "wiki"
  },
  {
   "name": "Wikidata Q17154458",
   "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17154458",
   "kind": "wiki"
  }
 ],
 "provenance": {
  "sources": [
   "engines",
   "ffw",
   "wikidata"
  ]
 },
 "updated": "2026-10-25",
 "conversions": [
  {
   "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": []
}