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XPM File Format

Short Name XPM
Long Name X Window PixMap
Typical File Extensions .h
Contains Bitmap/Icon/Cursor


This is a format, loosely based on XBM, intended to store color bitmaps, icons) and cursors in the X Window system (a GUI system that is particularly popular on UNIX and Linux computers).

As far as I know, there is no official standard for this format.

The format is not compressed (it in fact, it is extremely verbose, although not as verbose XBM), 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.



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