{
 "id": "vips-image",
 "name": "Vips Image",
 "category": "image",
 "identifiers": {
  "extensions": [
   "v",
   "vips"
  ],
  "mime": [
   "application/octet-stream"
  ],
  "puid": [
   "fmt/1811"
  ],
  "wikidata": [
   "Q105858580"
  ],
  "magic": [
   {
    "offset": 0,
    "hex": "08f2a6b6",
    "notes": "Vips Little-endian"
   },
   {
    "offset": 0,
    "hex": "b6a6f208",
    "notes": "Vips Big-endian"
   }
  ],
  "signatures": [
   {
    "name": "Vips Little-endian",
    "sequences": [
     {
      "position": "bof",
      "offset": 0,
      "pattern": "08f2a6b6"
     }
    ]
   },
   {
    "name": "Vips Big-endian",
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     {
      "position": "bof",
      "offset": 0,
      "pattern": "b6a6f208"
     }
    ]
   }
  ]
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 "status": "writable",
 "summary": "The Vips file format is a native raster image format produced by the LibVips image processing library.",
 "tools": [
  {
   "name": "ImageMagick",
   "url": "https://imagemagick.org",
   "license": "ImageMagick License",
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   "reads": true,
   "writes": true
  },
  {
   "name": "VIPS",
   "url": "https://www.libvips.org/",
   "reads": true,
   "writes": true,
   "license": "GNU Lesser General Public License",
   "open_source": true
  }
 ],
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   "name": "PRONOM fmt/1811",
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  },
  {
   "name": "Wikidata Q105858580",
   "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q105858580",
   "kind": "wiki"
  },
  {
   "name": "File Formats Wiki",
   "url": "http://fileformats.archiveteam.org/wiki/VIPS",
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  }
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   "pronom",
   "wikidata"
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   "to": "portable-network-graphics",
   "tool": "ImageMagick",
   "command": "convert in.vips out.png",
   "fidelity": "lossless",
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   "url": "https://imagemagick.org"
  },
  {
   "to": "tagged-image-file-format",
   "tool": "ImageMagick",
   "command": "convert in.vips 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.vips out.jpg",
   "fidelity": "lossy",
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   "url": "https://imagemagick.org"
  },
  {
   "to": "webp",
   "tool": "ImageMagick",
   "command": "convert in.vips out.webp",
   "fidelity": "lossy",
   "losses": "Lossy compression.",
   "url": "https://imagemagick.org"
  },
  {
   "to": "gif",
   "tool": "ImageMagick",
   "command": "convert in.vips out.gif",
   "fidelity": "lossy",
   "losses": "Reduced to 256 colours.",
   "url": "https://imagemagick.org"
  }
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 "claims": [],
 "verification": []
}