Multipage Zsoft Paintbrush Bitmap Graphics

Writable

image

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Identify it

Extensions	`.dcx`
MIME types	`image/x-dcx`
Signatures	`b168de3a` at byte 0 (Multipage Zsoft Paintbrush Bitmap Graphics)
PRONOM	`x-fmt/348`
Wikidata	`Q28205890`

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Open it

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Convert it

To	With	Fidelity	Command and losses
Portable Network Graphics	ImageMagick	Lossless	`convert in.dcx out.png` Pixels kept; some metadata, colour profiles or layers may be dropped.
Tagged Image File Format	ImageMagick	Lossless	`convert in.dcx out.tif` Pixels kept; some metadata, colour profiles or layers may be dropped.
GIF 89a	ImageMagick	Lossy	`convert in.dcx out.gif` Reduced to 256 colours.
JPEG File Interchange Format 1.02	ImageMagick	Lossy	`convert in.dcx out.jpg` Lossy compression.
WebP	ImageMagick	Lossy	`convert in.dcx out.webp` Lossy compression.

Documentation

kaitai grammar: https://github.com/kaitai-io/kaitai_struct_formats/blob/master/image/pcx_dcx.ksy

Sources

From Converters (FFmpeg, ImageMagick, Pandoc, LibreOffice), Just Solve the File Format Problem (File Formats Wiki), Kaitai Struct format gallery, PRONOM, Wikidata. Updated 2026-10-24.

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