PRIMER 22.1

24-Bit File Formats

24-Bit File Formats

BMP
Uncompressed 24 bit Microsoft windows bitmap. The approximate size of the file (in bytes) is file size = 3 * image width *image height
PNG
24 bit lossless compressed Portable Network Graphics image.  offers the similar degree of compression as GIF but has better colour quality.
JPG
Joint Photographic Experts Group compressed format. This gives image quality nearly comparable to 24 bit-plane bitmaps, but with a file of < 5% the equivalent size.  JPEG format is supported by all common visualisation packages and is recommended for all applications unless image quality is of paramount importance.
PPM
24 bit uncompressed Portable Pix Map. The approximate size of the file is [3 * image width *image height] bytes.


 

Various .bmp formats are available, and there are Controls for the dithering of the 8 bit-plane variants and palette optimisation .

RESOLUTION

All images can be output at either the screen resolution or at a resolution of either 2 or 4 times the screen resolution.