X-Windows Screen Dump File X10

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Identify it

Extensions	`.xdm.xwd`
MIME types	`image/x-xwindowdump`
Signatures	`0000002800000006` at byte 0 (X-Windows Screen Dump X10)
PRONOM	`x-fmt/300`

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Open it

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GIMPOpen sourcereads and writes · GNU General Public License, version 3.0
ImageMagickOpen sourcereads and writes · ImageMagick License
Hijaak Digital Photo Studioreads and writes
PaintShop Photo Pro X3reads and writes
xwdwrites
Adobe FrameMaker 5.5reads
ENVIreads · proprietary license

Convert it

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

Sources

PRONOM x-fmt/300

From PRONOM. Updated 2012-03-16.

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