{
 "id": "picture-publisher-bitmap-4",
 "name": "Picture Publisher Bitmap",
 "category": "image",
 "identifiers": {
  "extensions": [
   "pp4"
  ],
  "puid": [
   "x-fmt/176"
  ],
  "wikidata": [
   "Q28207008"
  ],
  "magic": [
   {
    "offset": 0,
    "hex": "4949020101002600",
    "notes": "Picture Publisher Bitmap Version 4"
   }
  ],
  "signatures": [
   {
    "name": "Picture Publisher Bitmap Version 4",
    "sequences": [
     {
      "position": "bof",
      "offset": 0,
      "pattern": "4949020101002600"
     }
    ]
   }
  ]
 },
 "status": "unknown",
 "summary": "Picture Publisher Bitmap files are the native raster graphics format of Picture Publisher, a Micrografx graphics application. The software was originally purchased from Astral in 1991 and later purchased by Corel in 2001. It was superseded by Corel Photo-Paint.",
 "tools": [
  {
   "name": "CorelDRAW Graphics Suite",
   "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5788503",
   "reads": true,
   "writes": false
  },
  {
   "name": "Picture Publisher 5",
   "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q113841235",
   "reads": true,
   "writes": true
  },
  {
   "name": "Picture Publisher Professional",
   "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q56612229",
   "reads": true,
   "writes": false
  }
 ],
 "projects": [
  {
   "name": "PRONOM x-fmt/176",
   "url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/PRONOM/x-fmt/176",
   "kind": "format-doc"
  },
  {
   "name": "Wikidata Q28207008",
   "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28207008",
   "kind": "wiki"
  },
  {
   "name": "File Formats Wiki",
   "url": "http://fileformats.archiveteam.org/wiki/Picture_Publisher",
   "kind": "wiki"
  }
 ],
 "provenance": {
  "sources": [
   "pronom",
   "wikidata"
  ]
 },
 "updated": "2026-10-20",
 "version": "4",
 "aliases": [],
 "structure": [],
 "parsers": [],
 "conversions": [],
 "samples": [],
 "claims": [],
 "verification": [],
 "family": "picture-publisher"
}