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XBM File Format
| Short Name |
XBM |
| Long Name |
X Window Bitmap |
| Typical File Extensions |
.h |
| Contains |
Monochrome Bitmap/Icon/Cursor |
This is a format that is used to store monochrome
icons
and cursors
in the X Window system (a GUI
system that is particularly popular on UNIX and Linux
computers).
The format is
not compressed (it in fact, it is extremely verbose), and is unusual in
that as well as being a graphics file format, it
is also valid C programming source code.
In typical uses, the verbosity is not a major
disadvantage, in that this format is normally used
to store only very small images.
One interesting aspect of the XBM format is that images in
this format can be generated on the fly using browser-based JavaScript
(as far as I'm aware, it is the only image format that can be
generated in this way - as other formats such
as
GIF,
PNG
and JPEG
can only be created using server-side scripts such as
ASP,
CGI or
PHP scripts).
An example of generating XBM images using JavaScript
can be found in chapter 14 of
JavaScript: The Definitive Guide.
For color images, a similar format to XBM, namely XPM,
has devised.
A technical discussion of this format can be found in Chapter 15 of Graphics File Formats by David C. Kay and John R. Levine.
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