Supported Image File Formats/en
Although expecco supports a wide range of bitmap image formats, some seldom used formats are not supported, or only supported with limitations.
GIF
reading and writing of 8 bit/pixel palette images is supported. Other images should be converted to 8bpp before writing. Tiled images with multiple palettes are not supported.
JPEG
reading and writing of 24bit/pixel is supported. Expecco uses the libjpg library, so any format supported by that (standard) library will also be supported by expecco.
PNG
(see http://www.schaik.com/pngsuite/pngsuite.html)
- Grayscale + alpha: reading unsupported (as of 2.11)
- 16bit RGB + alpha: incorrect display
- TRNS chunk with alpha values (only on-off masks)
When writing, expecco will always generate either 8bpp palette, or 24bpp truecolor images.
BMP
1,4,8,24 and 32 bpp files can be read and written.
TIFF
most formats are supported in reading, with some limitations:
- supported compressions:
- CCITT group3 FAX compression
- LZW
- packbits
1, 4, 8 and 24 bit files can be written. No support for image masks or alpha channels.
XBM
both reading and writing
XPM
some restrictions apply (to be documented)
Other Formats
Support for other formats, which are more or less of historic interest, can be made available upon request and at some extra charge: XWD, Targa, Sun-Raster, PICT, PCX, PBM, OSX-Icon, IrisRGB. Also, subset of the AVI and FLI formats can be provided if there is a need.