Free Image Converter, convert from and to TIFF, JPEG, BMP, GIF, PDF, Postscript, etc. formats

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Supported Image Formats

Free Image Converter supports reading over 100 major file formats (not including sub-formats). The following table provides a summary of the supported image formats.

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Tag	Mode	Description
ART	R	PFS: 1st Publisher
AVI	R	Microsoft Audio/Visual Interleaved
AVS	RW	AVS X image
BMP	RW	Microsoft Windows bitmap
CGM	R	Computer Graphics Metafile
CIN	RW	Kodak Cineon Image Format
CMYK	RW	Raw cyan, magenta, yellow, and black samples
CMYKA	RW	Raw cyan, magenta, yellow, black, and alpha samples
CUR	R	Microsoft Cursor Icon
CUT	R	DR Halo
DCM	R	Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) image
DCX	RW	ZSoft IBM PC multi-page Paintbrush image
DIB	RW	Microsoft Windows Device Independent Bitmap
DJVU	R
DNG	R	Digital Negative
DOT	R	Graph Visualization
DPX	RW	SMPTE Digital Moving Picture Exchange 2.0 (SMPTE 268M-2003)
EMF	R	Microsoft Enhanced Metafile (32-bit)
EPDF	RW	Encapsulated Portable Document Format
EPI	RW	Adobe Encapsulated PostScript Interchange format
EPS	RW	Adobe Encapsulated PostScript
EPS2	W	Adobe Level II Encapsulated PostScript
EPS3	W	Adobe Level III Encapsulated PostScript
EPSF	RW	Adobe Encapsulated PostScript
EPSI	RW	Adobe Encapsulated PostScript Interchange format
EPT	RW	Adobe Encapsulated PostScript Interchange format with TIFF preview
EXR	RW	High dynamic-range (HDR) file format developed by Industrial Light & Magic
FAX	RW	Group 3 TIFF
FIG	R	FIG graphics format
FITS	RW	Flexible Image Transport System
FPX	RW	FlashPix Format
GIF	RW	CompuServe Graphics Interchange Format
GPLT	R	Gnuplot plot files
GRAY	RW	Raw gray samples
HPGL	R	HP-GL plotter language
HTML	RW	Hypertext Markup Language with a client-side image map
ICO	R	Microsoft icon
INFO	W	Format and characteristics of the image
JBIG	RW	Joint Bi-level Image experts Group file interchange format
JNG	RW	Multiple-image Network Graphics
JP2	RW	JPEG-2000 JP2 File Format Syntax
JPC	RW	JPEG-2000 Code Stream Syntax
JPEG	RW	Joint Photographic Experts Group JFIF format
MAN	R	Unix reference manual pages
MAT	R	MATLAB image format
MONO	RW	Bi-level bitmap in least-significant-byte first order
MNG	RW	Multiple-image Network Graphics
MPEG	RW	Motion Picture Experts Group file interchange format (version 1)
M2V	RW	Motion Picture Experts Group file interchange format (version 2)
MPC	RW	Magick Persistent Cache image file format
MSL	RW	Magick Scripting Language
MTV	RW	MTV Raytracing image format
OTB	RW	On-the-air Bitmap
P7	RW	Xv's Visual Schnauzer thumbnail format
PALM	RW	Palm pixmap
PAM	W	Common 2-dimensional bitmap format
PBM	RW	Portable bitmap format (black and white)
PCD	RW	Photo CD
PCDS	RW	Photo CD
PCL	W	HP Page Control Language
PCX	RW	ZSoft IBM PC Paintbrush file
PDB	RW	Palm Database ImageViewer Format
PDF	RW	Portable Document Format
PFA	R	Postscript Type 1 font (ASCII)
PFB	R	Postscript Type 1 font (binary)
PFM	RW	Portable float map format
PGM	RW	Portable graymap format (gray scale)
PICON	RW	Personal Icon
PICT	RW	Apple Macintosh QuickDraw/PICT file
PIX	R	Alias/Wavefront RLE image format
PNG	RW	Portable Network Graphics
PNM	RW	Portable anymap
PPM	RW	Portable pixmap format (color)
PS	RW	Adobe PostScript file
PS2	RW	Adobe Level II PostScript file
PS3	RW	Adobe Level III PostScript file
PSD	RW	Adobe Photoshop bitmap file
PTIF	RW	Pyramid encoded TIFF
PWP	R	Seattle File Works multi-image file
RAD	R	Radiance image file
RGB	RW	Raw red, green, and blue samples
RGBA	RW	Raw red, green, blue, and alpha samples
RLA	R	Alias/Wavefront image file
RLE	R	Utah Run length encoded image file
SCT	R	Scitex Continuous Tone Picture
SFW	R	Seattle File Works image
SGI	RW	Irix RGB image
SHTML	W	Hypertext Markup Language client-side image map
SUN	RW	SUN Rasterfile
SVG	RW	Scalable Vector Graphics
TGA	RW	Truevision Targa image
TIFF	RW	Tagged Image File Format
TIM	R	PSX TIM file
TXT	RW	Raw text file
UIL	W	X-Motif UIL table
UYVY	RW	Interleaved YUV raw image
VICAR	RW	VICAR rasterfile format
VIFF	RW	Khoros Visualization Image File Format
WBMP	RW	Wireless bitmap
WMF	R	Windows Metafile
WPG	R	Word Perfect Graphics File
X	RW	display or import an image to or from an X11 server
XBM	RW	X Windows system bitmap, black and white only
XCF	R	GIMP image
XPM	RW	X Windows system pixmap
XWD	RW	X Windows system window dump
YCbCr	RW	Raw Y, Cb, and Cr samples
YCbCrA	RW	Raw Y, Cb, Cr, and alpha samples
YUV	RW	CCIR 601 4:1:1