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84<p class="text-center"><a href="formats.html#colorspace">A Word about Colorspaces</a> • <a href="formats.html#supported">Supported Formats</a> • <a href="formats.html#pseudo">Pseudo Formats</a> • <a href="formats.html#builtin-images">Built-in Images</a>  • <a href="formats.html#builtin-patterns">Built-in Patterns</a> • <a href="formats.html#embedded">Embedded Profiles</a></p>
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86<p class="lead magick-description">ImageMagick uses an ASCII string known as <var>magick</var> (e.g. <code>GIF</code>) to identify file formats, algorithms acting as formats, built-in patterns, and embedded profile types.  Support for some of the formats are delegated to libraries or external programs. The Installation Guide describes where to find these distributions and any special configuration options required.</p>
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88<p>To get a complete listing of which image formats are supported on your system, type</p>
89
90<pre class="highlight"><code>identify -list format
91</code></pre>
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93<p>On some platforms, ImageMagick automagically processes these extensions: .gz for Zip compression, .Z for Unix compression, .bz2 for block compression, and .pgp for PGP encryption. For example, a PNM image called image.pnm.gz is automagically uncompressed.</p>
94
95<h2><a class="anchor" id="colorspace"></a>A Word about Colorspaces</h2>
96 <p>A majority of the image formats assume an sRGB
97colorspace (e.g. JPEG, PNG, etc.).  A few support only linear RGB (e.g. EXR,
98DPX, CIN, HDR) or only linear GRAY (e.g. PGM).  A few formats support CMYK.
99Then there is the occasional format that also supports LAB (that is CieLAB)
100(e.g. TIFF, PSD, JPG, JP2).  To determine the colorspace of your image, use
101this command:</p>
102
103<pre class="highlight"><code>-> identify -verbose image.jpg
104Image: image.jpg
105Format: JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group JFIF format)
106...
107Colorspace: sRGB
108</code></pre>
109
110OR use the appropriate percent escape
111<pre class="highlight"><code>-> convert image.jpg -print "%[colorspace]\n" null:
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113</code></pre>
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116<p>When processing an image, be aware of the colorspace.  Many image
117processing algorithms assume a linear RGB colorspace.  Although you may get
118satisfactory results processing in the sRGB colorspace, you may get improved
119results in linear RGB (essentially sRGB with the gamma function removed).  For
120example,</p>
121
122<pre class="highlight"><code>convert image.jpg -colorspace RGB -resize 50% -colorspace sRGB resize.jpg
123</code></pre>
124
125<p>As of IM 6.7.8-2 one can properly work in LAB colorspace whether or not
126Imagemagick is <a href="high-dynamic-range.html">HDRI</a>-enabled.  Essentually the A and
127B channels are stored with a 50% gray bias, to allow it to handle the
128negatives required by the format.</p>
129
130<pre class="highlight"><code>convert lab.tif -resize 50% resize.jpg
131</code></pre>
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133<p>Again, it may not make sense for some image processing operators to work
134directly in LAB space, but ImageMagick permits it and generally returns
135reasonable results.</p>
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137<p>Prior to IM 6.7.8-2, the A and B channels has a discontinuity, making them
138non-linear. As such to process such images, you needed to first convert the
139colorspace some other linear colorspace, before apply your processing
140operator. Afterward you can transform back to the LAB colorspace.  For
141example,</p>
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143<pre class="highlight"><code>  convert lab.tif -colorspace RGB -resize 50% -colorspace Lab resize.jpg
144</code></pre>
145
146<h2><a class="anchor" id="supported"></a>Supported Image Formats</h2>
147
148<p>ImageMagick supports reading over 100 major file formats (not
149including sub-formats). The following table provides a summary of
150the supported image formats.</p>
151
152<div class="table-responsive">
153<table class="table table-sm table-striped">
154  <tbody>
155  <tr>
156    <th>Tag</th>
157    <th>Mode</th>
158    <th>Description</th>
159    <th>Notes</th>
160  </tr>
161
162  <tr>
163    <td>AAI</td>
164    <td>RW</td>
165    <td>AAI Dune image</td>
166    <td> </td>
167  </tr>
168
169  <tr>
170    <td>ART</td>
171    <td>RW</td>
172    <td>PFS: 1st Publisher</td>
173    <td>Format originally used on the Macintosh (MacPaint?) and later used for PFS: 1st Publisher clip art.</td>
174  </tr>
175
176  <tr>
177    <td>ARW</td>
178    <td>R</td>
179    <td>Sony Digital Camera Alpha Raw Image Format</td>
180    <td> </td>
181  </tr>
182
183  <tr>
184    <td><a href="http://www.jmcgowan.com/avi.html">AVI</a></td>
185    <td>R</td>
186    <td>Microsoft Audio/Visual Interleaved</td>
187    <td> </td>
188  </tr>
189
190  <tr>
191    <td>AVS</td>
192    <td>RW</td>
193    <td>AVS X image</td>
194    <td> </td>
195  </tr>
196
197  <tr>
198    <td><a href="http://bellard.org/bpg/">BPG</a></td>
199    <td>RW</td>
200    <td>Better Portable Graphics</td>
201    <td>Use <a href="command-line-options.html#quality">-quality</a> to specify the image compression quality.  To meet the requirements of BPG, the quality argument divided by 2 (e.g. -quality 92 assigns 46 as the BPG compression.</td>
202  </tr>
203
204  <tr>
205    <td><a href="http://www.fileformat.info/format/bmp/egff.htm">BMP, BMP2, BMP3</a></td>
206    <td>RW</td>
207    <td>Microsoft Windows bitmap</td>
208    <td>By default the BMP format is version 4.  Use BMP3 and BMP2 to write versions 3 and 2 respectively.</td>
209  </tr>
210
211  <tr>
212    <td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braille_ASCII">BRF</a></td>
213    <td>W</td>
214    <td>Braille Ready Format</td>
215    <td>Uses juxtaposition of 6-dot braille patterns (thus 6x2 dot matrices) to reproduce images, using the BRF ASCII Braille encoding.</td>
216  </tr>
217
218  <tr>
219    <td><a href="http://www.fileformat.info/format/cals/egff.htm">CALS</a></td>
220    <td>R</td>
221    <td>Continuous Acquisition and Life-cycle Support Type 1 image</td>
222    <td>Specified in MIL-R-28002 and MIL-PRF-28002. Standard blueprint archive format as used by the US military to replace microfiche.</td>
223  </tr>
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226    <td><a href="http://www.fileformat.info/format/cgm/egff.htm">CGM</a></td>
227    <td>R</td>
228    <td>Computer Graphics Metafile</td>
229    <td>Requires <a href="http://www.agocg.ac.uk/train/cgm/ralcgm.htm">ralcgm</a> to render CGM files.</td>
230  </tr>
231
232  <tr>
233    <td><a href="http://www.cineon.com/ff_draft.html">CIN</a></td>
234    <td>RW</td>
235    <td>Kodak Cineon Image Format</td>
236    <td>Use <a href="command-line-options.html#set">-set</a> to specify the image gamma or black and white points (e.g. <code>-set gamma 1.7</code>, <code>-set reference-black 95</code>, <code>-set reference-white 685</code>).  Properties include cin:file.create_date, cin:file.create_time, cin:file.filename, cin:file.version, cin:film.count, cin:film.format, cin:film.frame_id, cin:film.frame_position, cin:film.frame_rate, cin:film.id, cin:film.offset, cin:film.prefix, cin:film.slate_info, cin:film.type, cin:image.label, cin:origination.create_date, cin:origination.create_time, cin:origination.device, cin:origination.filename, cin:origination.model, cin:origination.serial, cin:origination.x_offset, cin:origination.x_pitch, cin:origination.y_offset, cin:origination.y_pitch, cin:user.data.</td>
237  </tr>
238
239  <tr>
240    <td>CIP</td>
241    <td>W</td>
242    <td>Cisco IP phone image format</td>
243    <td> </td>
244  </tr>
245
246  <tr>
247    <td>CMYK</td>
248    <td>RW</td>
249    <td>Raw cyan, magenta, yellow, and black samples</td>
250    <td>Use <a href="command-line-options.html#size">-size</a> and <a href="command-line-options.html#depth">-depth</a> to specify the image width, height, and depth.  To specify a single precision floating-point format, use <code>-define quantum:format=floating-point</code>.  Set the depth to 32 for single precision floats, 64 for double precision, and 16 for half-precision.</td>
251  </tr>
252
253  <tr>
254    <td>CMYKA</td>
255    <td>RW</td>
256    <td>Raw cyan, magenta, yellow, black, and alpha samples</td>
257    <td>Use <a href="command-line-options.html#size">-size</a> and <a href="command-line-options.html#depth">-depth</a> to specify the image width, height, and depth.  To specify a single precision floating-point format, use <code>-define quantum:format=floating-point</code>.  Set the depth to 32 for single precision floats, 64 for double precision, and 16 for half-precision.</td>
258  </tr>
259
260  <tr>
261    <td>CR2</td>
262    <td>R</td>
263    <td>Canon Digital Camera Raw Image Format</td>
264    <td>Requires an explicit image format otherwise the image is interpreted as a TIFF image (e.g. cr2:image.cr2).</td>
265  </tr>
266
267  <tr>
268    <td>CRW</td>
269    <td>R</td>
270    <td>Canon Digital Camera Raw Image Format</td>
271    <td> </td>
272  </tr>
273
274  <tr>
275    <td><a href="https://wwwimages2.adobe.com/content/dam/acom/en/products/speedgrade/cc/pdfs/cube-lut-specification-1.0.pdf">CUBE</a></td>
276    <td>R</td>
277    <td>Cube Color lookup table converted to a HALD image</td>
278    <td>Select levels like this: cube:Vibrant.cube[8] for level 8</td>
279  </tr>
280
281  <tr>
282    <td>CUR</td>
283    <td>R</td>
284    <td>Microsoft Cursor Icon</td>
285    <td> </td>
286  </tr>
287
288  <tr>
289    <td>CUT</td>
290    <td>R</td>
291    <td>DR Halo</td>
292    <td> </td>
293  </tr>
294
295  <tr>
296    <td>DCM</td>
297    <td>R</td>
298    <td>Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) image</td>
299    <td>Used by the medical community for images like X-rays.  ImageMagick sets the initial display range based on the Window Center (0028,1050) and Window Width (0028,1051) tags. Use <a href="command-line-options.html#define">-define dcm:display-range=reset</a> to set the display range to the minimum and maximum pixel values. Use <a href="command-line-options.html#define">-define dcm:rescale=true</a> to enable interpretation of the rescale slope and intercept settings in the file. Use <a href="command-line-options.html#define">-define dcm:window=centerXwidth</a> to override the center and width settings in the file with your own values.</td>
300  </tr>
301
302  <tr>
303    <td>DCR</td>
304    <td>R</td>
305    <td>Kodak Digital Camera Raw Image File</td>
306    <td> </td>
307  </tr>
308
309  <tr>
310    <td>DCX</td>
311    <td>RW</td>
312    <td>ZSoft IBM PC multi-page Paintbrush image</td>
313    <td> </td>
314  </tr>
315
316  <tr>
317    <td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DirectDraw_Surface">DDS</a></td>
318    <td>RW</td>
319    <td>Microsoft Direct Draw Surface</td>
320    <td>Use <a href="command-line-options.html#define">-define</a> to specify the compression (e.g. <code>-define dds:compression={dxt1, dxt5, none}</code>). Other defines include <code>dds:cluster-fit={true,false}</code>, <code>dds:weight-by-alpha={true,false}</code>, <code>dds:fast-mipmaps={true,false}</code>, and use <code>dds:mipmaps</code> to set the number of mipmaps (use <code>fromlist</code> to use the image list).</td>
321
322  </tr>
323
324  <tr>
325    <td>DIB</td>
326    <td>RW</td>
327    <td>Microsoft Windows Device Independent Bitmap</td>
328    <td>DIB is a <a href="formats.html#BMP">BMP</a> file without the <a href="formats.html#BMP">BMP</a> header. Used to support embedded images in compound formats like WMF.</td>
329  </tr>
330
331  <tr>
332    <td><a href="http://www.djvu.org/">DJVU</a></td>
333    <td>R</td>
334    <td></td>
335    <td></td>
336  </tr>
337
338  <tr>
339    <td><a href="http://www.adobe.com/products/dng/main.html">DNG</a></td>
340    <td>R</td>
341    <td>Digital Negative</td>
342    <td>Requires an explicit image format otherwise the image is interpreted as a TIFF image (e.g. dng:image.dng).</td>
343  </tr>
344
345  <tr>
346    <td><a href="http://www.graphviz.org">DOT</a></td>
347    <td>R</td>
348    <td>Graph Visualization</td>
349    <td>Use <a href="command-line-options.html#define">-define</a> to specify the layout engine (e.g. <code>-define dot:layout-engine=twopi</code>).</td>
350  </tr>
351
352  <tr>
353    <td><a href="motion-picture.html">DPX</a></td>
354    <td>RW</td>
355    <td>SMPTE Digital Moving Picture Exchange 2.0 (SMPTE 268M-2003)</td>
356    <td>Use <a href="command-line-options.html#set">-set</a> to specify the image gamma or black and white points (e.g. <code>-set gamma 1.7</code>, <code>-set reference-black 95</code>, <code>-set reference-white 685</code>).</td>
357  </tr>
358
359  <tr>
360    <td>EMF</td>
361    <td>R</td>
362    <td>Microsoft Enhanced Metafile (32-bit)</td>
363    <td>Only available under Microsoft Windows.  Use <a href="command-line-options.html#size">-size</a> command line option to specify the maximum width and height.</td>
364  </tr>
365
366  <tr>
367    <td>EPDF</td>
368    <td>RW</td>
369    <td>Encapsulated Portable Document Format</td>
370    <td></td>
371  </tr>
372
373  <tr>
374    <td>EPI</td>
375    <td>RW</td>
376    <td>Adobe Encapsulated PostScript Interchange format</td>
377    <td>Requires <a href="http://www.cs.wisc.edu/%7Eghost">Ghostscript</a> to read.</td>
378  </tr>
379
380  <tr>
381    <td>EPS</td>
382    <td>RW</td>
383    <td>Adobe Encapsulated PostScript</td>
384    <td>Requires <a href="http://www.cs.wisc.edu/%7Eghost">Ghostscript</a> to read.</td>
385  </tr>
386
387  <tr>
388    <td>EPS2</td>
389    <td>W</td>
390    <td>Adobe Level II Encapsulated PostScript</td>
391    <td>Requires <a href="http://www.cs.wisc.edu/%7Eghost">Ghostscript</a> to read.</td>
392  </tr>
393
394  <tr>
395    <td>EPS3</td>
396    <td>W</td>
397    <td>Adobe Level III Encapsulated PostScript</td>
398    <td>Requires <a href="http://www.cs.wisc.edu/%7Eghost">Ghostscript</a> to read.</td>
399  </tr>
400
401  <tr>
402    <td>EPSF</td>
403    <td>RW</td>
404    <td>Adobe Encapsulated PostScript</td>
405    <td>Requires <a href="http://www.cs.wisc.edu/%7Eghost">Ghostscript</a> to read.</td>
406  </tr>
407
408  <tr>
409    <td>EPSI</td>
410    <td>RW</td>
411    <td>Adobe Encapsulated PostScript Interchange format</td>
412    <td>Requires <a href="http://www.cs.wisc.edu/%7Eghost">Ghostscript</a> to read.</td>
413  </tr>
414
415  <tr>
416    <td>EPT</td>
417    <td>RW</td>
418    <td>Adobe Encapsulated PostScript Interchange format with <a href="formats.html#TIFF">TIFF</a> preview</td>
419    <td>Requires <a href="http://www.cs.wisc.edu/%7Eghost">Ghostscript</a> to read.</td>
420  </tr>
421
422  <tr>
423    <td><a href="http://www.openexr.org">EXR</a></td>
424    <td>RW</td>
425    <td>High dynamic-range (HDR) file format developed by Industrial Light &amp; Magic</td>
426    <td>See <a href="high-dynamic-range.html">High Dynamic-Range Images</a> for details on this image format. To specify the output color type, use <code>-define exr:color-type={RGB,RGBA,YC,YCA,Y,YA,R,G,B,A}</code>. Use <a href="command-line-options.html#sampling-factor">-sampling-factor</a> to specify the sampling rate for YC(A) (e.g. <code>2x2 or 4:2:0</code>). Requires the <a href="http://www.openexr.org/">OpenEXR</a> delegate library.</td>
427  </tr>
428
429  <tr>
430    <td>FAX</td>
431    <td>RW</td>
432    <td>Group 3 TIFF</td>
433    <td>This format is a fixed width of 1728 as required by the standard.  See <a href="formats.html#TIFF">TIFF</a> format. Note that FAX machines use non-square pixels which are 1.5 times wider than they are tall but computer displays use square pixels so FAX images may appear to be narrow unless they are explicitly resized using a resize specification of <code>100x150%</code>.</td>
434  </tr>
435
436  <tr>
437    <td><a href="http://homepage.usask.ca/~ijm451/fig/">FIG</a></td>
438    <td>R</td>
439    <td>FIG graphics format</td>
440    <td>Requires <a href="ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/applications/drawing_tools/transfig">TransFig</a>.</td>
441  </tr>
442
443  <tr>
444    <td><a href="http://www.cv.nrao.edu/fits/">FITS</a></td>
445    <td>RW</td>
446    <td>Flexible Image Transport System</td>
447    <td>To specify a single-precision floating-point format, use <code>-define quantum:format=floating-point</code>.  Set the depth to 64 for a double-precision floating-point format.</td>
448  </tr>
449
450  <tr>
451    <td>FPX</td>
452    <td>RW</td>
453    <td>FlashPix Format</td>
454    <td>FlashPix has the option to store mega- and giga-pixel images at various resolutions in a single file which permits conservative bandwidth and fast reveal times when displayed within a Web browser.  Requires the <a href="https://imagemagick.org/download/delegates">FlashPix SDK</a>. Specify the FlashPix viewing parameters with the <a href="command-line-options.html#define">-define fpx:view</a>.</td>
455  </tr>
456
457  <tr>
458    <td><a href="http://www.fileformat.info/format/gif/egff.htm">GIF</a></td>
459    <td>RW</td>
460    <td>CompuServe Graphics Interchange Format</td>
461    <td>8-bit RGB PseudoColor with up to 256 palette entries. Specify the format <code>GIF87</code> to write the older version 87a of the format.  Use <a href="command-line-options.html#transparent-color">-transparent-color</a> to specify the GIF transparent color (e.g. <code>-transparent-color wheat</code>).</td>
462  </tr>
463
464  <tr>
465    <td>GPLT</td>
466    <td>R</td>
467    <td>Gnuplot plot files</td>
468    <td>Requires <a href="http://www.gnuplot.info/">gnuplot4.0.tar.Z</a> or later.</td>
469  </tr>
470
471  <tr>
472    <td>GRAY</td>
473    <td>RW</td>
474    <td>Raw gray samples</td>
475    <td>Use <a href="command-line-options.html#size">-size</a> and <a href="command-line-options.html#depth">-depth</a> to specify the image width, height, and depth.  To specify a single precision floating-point format, use <code>-define quantum:format=floating-point</code>.  Set the depth to 32 for single precision floats, 64 for double precision, and 16 for half-precision.</td>
476  </tr>
477
478  <tr>
479    <td>GRAYA</td>
480    <td>RW</td>
481    <td>Raw gray and alpha samples</td>
482    <td>Use <a href="command-line-options.html#size">-size</a> and <a href="command-line-options.html#depth">-depth</a> to specify the image width, height, and depth.  To specify a single precision floating-point format, use <code>-define quantum:format=floating-point</code>.  Set the depth to 32 for single precision floats, 64 for double precision, and 16 for half-precision.</td>
483  </tr>
484
485  <tr>
486    <td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RGBE_image_format">HDR</a></td>
487    <td>RW</td>
488    <td>Radiance RGBE image format</td>
489    <td> </td>
490  </tr>
491
492  <tr>
493    <td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RGBE_image_format">HDR</a></td>
494    <td>RW</td>
495    <td>Radiance RGBE image format</td>
496    <td> </td>
497  </tr>
498
499  <tr>
500    <td><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Efficiency_Image_File_Format">HEIC</a></td>
501    <td>R</td>
502    <td>Apple High efficiency Image Format</td>
503    <td>HEIC requires the <a href="https://github.com/strukturag/libheif">libheif</a> delegate library.</td>
504  </tr>
505
506  <tr>
507    <td>HPGL</td>
508    <td>R</td>
509    <td>HP-GL plotter language</td>
510    <td>Requires <a href="http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/hp2xx">hp2xx-3.4.4.tar.gz</a></td>
511  </tr>
512
513  <tr>
514    <td>HRZ</td>
515    <td>RW</td>
516    <td>Slow Scane TeleVision</td>
517    <td> </td>
518  </tr>
519
520  <tr>
521    <td>HTML</td>
522    <td>RW</td>
523    <td>Hypertext Markup Language with a client-side image map</td>
524    <td>Also known as <code>HTM</code>. Requires <a href="http://user.it.uu.se/%7Ejan/html2ps.html">html2ps</a> to read.</td>
525  </tr>
526
527  <tr>
528    <td>ICO</td>
529    <td>R</td>
530    <td>Microsoft icon</td>
531    <td>Also known as <code>ICON</code>.</td>
532  </tr>
533
534  <tr>
535    <td>INFO</td>
536    <td>W</td>
537    <td>Format and characteristics of the image</td>
538    <td></td>
539  </tr>
540
541  <tr>
542    <td><a href="https://www.iso.org/obp/ui/#iso:std:iso:tr:11548:-1">ISOBRL</a></td>
543    <td>W</td>
544    <td>ISO/TR 11548-1 BRaiLle</td>
545    <td>Uses juxtaposition of 8-dot braille patterns (thus 8x2 dot matrices) to reproduce images, using the ISO/TR 11548-1 Braille encoding.</td>
546  </tr>
547
548  <tr>
549    <td><a href="https://www.iso.org/obp/ui/#iso:std:iso:tr:11548:-1">ISOBRL6</a></td>
550    <td>W</td>
551    <td>ISO/TR 11548-1 BRaiLle 6 dots</td>
552    <td>Uses juxtaposition of 6-dot braille patterns (thus 6x2 dot matrices) to reproduce images, using the ISO/TR 11548-1 Braille encoding.</td>
553  </tr>
554
555  <tr>
556    <td>JBIG</td>
557    <td>RW</td>
558    <td>Joint Bi-level Image experts Group file interchange format</td>
559    <td>Also known as <code>BIE</code> and <code>JBG</code>. Requires <a href="http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/jbigkit/">jbigkit-1.6.tar.gz</a>.</td>
560  </tr>
561
562  <tr>
563    <td><a href="http://www.libmng.com/">JNG</a></td>
564    <td>RW</td>
565    <td>Multiple-image Network Graphics</td>
566    <td>JPEG in a PNG-style wrapper with transparency. Requires libjpeg and libpng-1.0.11 or later, <a href="http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/libpng.html">libpng-1.2.5</a> or later recommended.</td>
567  </tr>
568
569  <tr>
570    <td><a href="http://www.openjpeg.org/">JP2</a></td>
571    <td>RW</td>
572    <td>JPEG-2000 JP2 File Format Syntax</td>
573    <td>Specify the encoding options with the <a href="command-line-options.html#define">-define</a> option. See <a href="jp2.html">JP2 Encoding Options</a> for more details.</td>
574  </tr>
575
576  <tr>
577    <td><a href="http://www.openjpeg.org/">JPT</a></td>
578    <td>RW</td>
579    <td>JPEG-2000 Code Stream Syntax</td>
580    <td>Specify the encoding options with the <a href="command-line-options.html#define">-define</a> option  See <a href="jp2.html">JP2 Encoding Options</a> for more details.</td>
581  </tr>
582
583  <tr>
584    <td><a href="http://www.openjpeg.org/">J2C</a></td>
585    <td>RW</td>
586    <td>JPEG-2000 Code Stream Syntax</td>
587    <td>Specify the encoding options with the <a href="command-line-options.html#define">-define</a> option  See <a href="jp2.html">JP2 Encoding Options</a> for more details.</td>
588  </tr>
589
590  <tr>
591    <td><a href="http://www.openjpeg.org/">J2K</a></td>
592    <td>RW</td>
593    <td>JPEG-2000 Code Stream Syntax</td>
594    <td>Specify the encoding options with the <a href="command-line-options.html#define">-define</a> option  See <a href="jp2.html">JP2 Encoding Options</a> for more details.</td>
595  </tr>
596
597  <tr>
598    <td><a href="http://www.jpeg.org/">JPEG</a></td>
599    <td>RW</td>
600    <td>Joint Photographic Experts Group JFIF format</td>
601    <td>Note, JPEG is a lossy compression.  In addition, you cannot create black and white images with JPEG nor can you save transparency.<br /><br /> Requires <a href="http://www.ijg.org/files/">jpegsrc.v8c.tar.gz</a>.  You can set quality scaling for luminance and chrominance separately (e.g. <a href="command-line-options.html#quality">-quality</a> 90,70). You can optionally define the DCT method, for example to specify the float method, use <a href="command-line-options.html#define">-define jpeg:dct-method=float</a>. By default we compute optimal Huffman coding tables.  Specify <a href="command-line-options.html#define">-define jpeg:optimize-coding=false</a> to use the default Huffman tables. Two other options include <a href="command-line-options.html#define">-define jpeg:block-smoothing</a> and <a href="command-line-options.html#define">-define jpeg:fancy-upsampling</a>. Set the sampling factor with <a href="command-line-options.html#define">-define jpeg:sampling-factor</a>. You can size the image with <code>jpeg:size</code>, for example <a href="command-line-options.html#define">-define jpeg:size=128x128</a>. To restrict the maximum file size, use <code>jpeg:extent</code>, for example <a href="command-line-options.html#define">-define jpeg:extent=400KB</a>.  To define one or more custom quantization tables, use <a href="command-line-options.html#define">-define jpeg:q-table=<i>filename</i></a>. To avoid reading a particular associated image profile, use <a href="command-line-options.html#define">-define profile:skip=<i>name</i></a> (e.g. profile:skip=ICC).</td>
602  </tr>
603
604  <tr>
605    <td><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JPEG_XR">JXR</a></td>
606    <td>RW</td>
607    <td>JPEG extended range</td>
608    <td>Requires the <a href="https://jxrlib.codeplex.com/">jxrlib</a> delegate library. Put the JxrDecApp and JxrEncApp applications in your execution path. </td>
609  </tr>
610
611  <tr>
612    <td><a href="http://www.json.org">JSON</a></td>
613    <td>W</td>
614    <td>JavaScript Object Notation, a lightweight data-interchange format</td>
615    <td>Include additional attributes about the image with these defines: <a href="command-line-options.html#define">-define json:locate</a>, <a href="command-line-options.html#define">-define json:limit</a>, <a href="command-line-options.html#define">-define json:moments</a>, or <a href="command-line-options.html#define">-define json:features</a>.</td>
616  </tr>
617
618  <tr>
619    <td>MAN</td>
620    <td>R</td>
621    <td>Unix reference manual pages</td>
622    <td>Requires that GNU groff and Ghostcript are installed.</td>
623  </tr>
624
625  <tr>
626    <td>MAT</td>
627    <td>R</td>
628    <td>MATLAB image format</td>
629    <td> </td>
630  </tr>
631
632  <tr>
633    <td><a href="miff.html">MIFF</a></td>
634    <td>RW</td>
635    <td>Magick image file format</td>
636    <td>This format persists all image attributes known to ImageMagick.  To specify a single precision floating-point format, use <code>-define quantum:format=floating-point</code>.  Set the depth to 32 for single precision floats, 64 for double precision, and 16 for half-precision.</td>
637  </tr>
638
639  <tr>
640    <td>MONO</td>
641    <td>RW</td>
642    <td>Bi-level bitmap in least-significant-byte first order</td>
643    <td> </td>
644  </tr>
645
646  <tr>
647    <td><a href="http://www.libpng.org/pub/mng/">MNG</a></td>
648    <td>RW</td>
649    <td>Multiple-image Network Graphics</td>
650    <td>A PNG-like Image Format Supporting Multiple Images, Animation and Transparent JPEG. Requires libpng-1.0.11 or later, <a href="http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/libpng.html">libpng-1.2.5</a> or later recommended. An interframe delay of 0 generates one frame with each additional layer composited on top.  For motion, be sure to specify a non-zero delay.</td>
651  </tr>
652
653  <tr>
654    <td><a href="http://www.ffmpeg.org/">M2V</a></td>
655    <td>RW</td>
656    <td>Motion Picture Experts Group file interchange format (version 2)</td>
657    <td>Requires <a href="http://www.ffmpeg.org/download.html">ffmpeg</a>.</td>
658  </tr>
659
660  <tr>
661    <td><a href="http://www.ffmpeg.org/">MPEG</a></td>
662    <td>RW</td>
663    <td>Motion Picture Experts Group file interchange format (version 1)</td>
664    <td>Requires <a href="http://www.ffmpeg.org/download.html">ffmpeg</a>.</td>
665  </tr>
666
667  <tr>
668    <td>MPC</td>
669    <td>RW</td>
670    <td>Magick Persistent Cache image file format</td>
671    <td>The most efficient data processing pattern is a write-once, read-many-times pattern. The image is generated or copied from source, then various analyses are performed on the image pixels over time.  MPC supports this pattern. MPC is the native <var>in-memory</var> ImageMagick uncompressed file format. This file format is identical to that used by ImageMagick to represent images in memory and is read by mapping the file directly into memory. The MPC format is not portable and is not suitable as an archive format. It is suitable as an intermediate format for high-performance image processing.  The MPC format requires two files to support one image. Image attributes are written to a file with the extension <code>.mpc</code>, whereas, image pixels are written to a file with the extension <code>.cache</code>.</td>
672  </tr>
673
674  <tr>
675    <td>MPR</td>
676    <td>RW</td>
677    <td>Magick Persistent Registry</td>
678    <td>This format permits you to write to and read images from memory.  The image persists until the program exits.  For example, let's use the MPR to create a checkerboard:
679<pre class="highlight"><code>convert \( -size 15x15 canvas:black canvas:white -append \) \
680  \( +clone -flip \) +append -write mpr:checkers +delete \
681  -size 240x240 tile:mpr:checkers board.png
682</code></pre></td>
683  </tr>
684
685  <tr>
686    <td>MRW</td>
687    <td>R</td>
688    <td>Sony (Minolta) Raw Image File</td>
689    <td> </td>
690  </tr>
691
692  <tr>
693    <td>MSL</td>
694    <td>RW</td>
695    <td>Magick Scripting Language</td>
696    <td>MSL is the XML-based scripting language supported by the <a href="conjure.html">conjure</a> utility. MSL requires the <a href="http://xmlsoft.org/">libxml2</a> delegate library.</td>
697  </tr>
698
699  <tr>
700    <td><a href="http://www.fileformat.info/format/mtv/egff.htm">MTV</a></td>
701    <td>RW</td>
702    <td>MTV Raytracing image format</td>
703    <td> </td>
704  </tr>
705
706  <tr>
707    <td><a href="magick-vector-graphics.html">MVG</a></td>
708    <td>RW</td>
709    <td>Magick Vector Graphics.</td>
710    <td>The native ImageMagick vector metafile format. A text file containing vector drawing commands accepted by <a href="convert.html">convert</a>'s <a href="command-line-options.html#draw">-draw</a> option.</td>
711  </tr>
712
713  <tr>
714    <td>NEF</td>
715    <td>R</td>
716    <td>Nikon Digital SLR Camera Raw Image File</td>
717    <td> </td>
718  </tr>
719
720  <tr>
721    <td>ORF</td>
722    <td>R</td>
723    <td>Olympus Digital Camera Raw Image File</td>
724    <td> </td>
725  </tr>
726
727  <tr>
728    <td>OTB</td>
729    <td>RW</td>
730    <td>On-the-air Bitmap</td>
731    <td> </td>
732  </tr>
733
734  <tr>
735    <td>P7</td>
736    <td>RW</td>
737    <td>Xv's Visual Schnauzer thumbnail format</td>
738    <td> </td>
739  </tr>
740
741  <tr>
742    <td>PALM</td>
743    <td>RW</td>
744    <td>Palm pixmap</td>
745    <td> </td>
746  </tr>
747
748  <tr>
749    <td><a href="http://netpbm.sourceforge.net/doc/pam.html">PAM</a></td>
750    <td>W</td>
751    <td>Common 2-dimensional bitmap format</td>
752    <td> </td>
753  </tr>
754
755  <tr>
756    <td>CLIPBOARD</td>
757    <td>RW</td>
758    <td>Windows Clipboard</td>
759    <td>Only available under Microsoft Windows.</td>
760  </tr>
761  <tr>
762    <td><a href="http://netpbm.sourceforge.net/doc/pbm.html">PBM</a></td>
763    <td>RW</td>
764    <td>Portable bitmap format (black and white)</td>
765    <td> </td>
766  </tr>
767
768  <tr>
769    <td>PCD</td>
770    <td>RW</td>
771    <td>Photo CD</td>
772    <td>The maximum resolution written is 768x512 pixels since larger images require huffman compression (which is not supported). Use <a href="command-line-options.html#bordercolor">-bordercolor</a> to specify the border color (e.g. <code>-bordercolor black</code>).</td>
773  </tr>
774
775  <tr>
776    <td>PCDS</td>
777    <td>RW</td>
778    <td>Photo CD</td>
779    <td>Decode with the sRGB color tables.</td>
780  </tr>
781
782  <tr>
783    <td>PCL</td>
784    <td>W</td>
785    <td>HP Page Control Language</td>
786    <td>Use <a href="command-line-options.html#define">-define</a> to specify fit to page option (e.g. <code>-define pcl:fit-to-page=true</code>).</td>
787  </tr>
788
789  <tr>
790    <td><a href="http://www.fileformat.info/format/pcx/egff.htm">PCX</a></td>
791    <td>RW</td>
792    <td>ZSoft IBM PC Paintbrush file</td>
793    <td> </td>
794  </tr>
795
796  <tr>
797    <td>PDB</td>
798    <td>RW</td>
799    <td>Palm Database ImageViewer Format</td>
800    <td> </td>
801  </tr>
802
803  <tr>
804    <td>PDF</td>
805    <td>RW</td>
806    <td>Portable Document Format</td>
807    <td>Requires <a href="http://www.cs.wisc.edu/%7Eghost">Ghostscript</a> to read.  By default, ImageMagick sets the page size to the MediaBox. Some PDF files, however, have a CropBox or TrimBox that is smaller than the MediaBox and may include white space, registration or cutting marks outside the CropBox or TrimBox. To force ImageMagick to use the CropBox or TrimBox rather than the MediaBox, use <a href="command-line-options.html#define">-define</a> (e.g. <code>-define pdf:use-cropbox=true</code> or <code>-define pdf:use-trimbox=true</code>).  Use <a href="command-line-options.html#density">-density</a> to improve the appearance of your PDF rendering (e.g. -density 300x300).  Use <a href="command-line-options.html#alpha">-alpha remove </a> to remove transparency. To specify direct conversion from  Postscript to PDF, use <code>-define delegate:bimodel=true</code>. Use <code>-define pdf:fit-page=true</code> to scale to the page size. To immediately stop processing upon an error, set <code>-define pdf:stop-on-error</code> to <code>true</code>. To set the page direction preferences to right-to-left, try  <code>-define pdf:page-direction=right-to-left</code>.</td>
808  </tr>
809
810  <tr>
811    <td>PEF</td>
812    <td>R</td>
813    <td>Pentax Electronic File</td>
814    <td>Requires an explicit image format otherwise the image is interpreted as a TIFF image (e.g. pef:image.pef).</td>
815  </tr>
816
817  <tr>
818    <td>PES</td>
819    <td>R</td>
820    <td>Embrid Embroidery Format</td>
821    <td> </td>
822  </tr>
823
824  <tr>
825    <td>PFA</td>
826    <td>R</td>
827    <td>Postscript Type 1 font (ASCII)</td>
828    <td>Opening as file returns a preview image.</td>
829  </tr>
830
831  <tr>
832    <td>PFB</td>
833    <td>R</td>
834    <td>Postscript Type 1 font (binary)</td>
835    <td>Opening as file returns a preview image.</td>
836  </tr>
837
838  <tr>
839    <td><a href="http://netpbm.sourceforge.net/doc/pfm.html">PFM</a></td>
840    <td>RW</td>
841    <td>Portable float map format</td>
842    <td> </td>
843  </tr>
844
845  <tr>
846    <td><a href="http://netpbm.sourceforge.net/doc/pgm.html">PGM</a></td>
847    <td>RW</td>
848    <td>Portable graymap format (gray scale)</td>
849    <td> </td>
850  </tr>
851
852  <tr>
853    <td>PICON</td>
854    <td>RW</td>
855    <td>Personal Icon</td>
856    <td> </td>
857  </tr>
858
859  <tr>
860    <td>PICT</td>
861    <td>RW</td>
862    <td>Apple Macintosh QuickDraw/PICT file</td>
863    <td> </td>
864  </tr>
865
866  <tr>
867    <td>PIX</td>
868    <td>R</td>
869    <td>Alias/Wavefront RLE image format</td>
870    <td> </td>
871  </tr>
872
873  <tr>
874    <td><a href="http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/">PNG</a></td>
875    <td>RW</td>
876    <td>Portable Network Graphics</td>
877    <td>Requires libpng-1.0.11 or later, <a href="http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/libpng.html">libpng-1.2.5</a> or later recommended. The PNG specification does not support pixels-per-inch units, only pixels-per-centimeter. To avoid reading a particular associated image profile, use <a href="command-line-options.html#define">-define profile:skip=<i>name</i></a> (e.g. profile:skip=ICC).</td>
878  </tr>
879
880  <tr>
881    <td><a href="http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/">PNG8</a></td>
882    <td>RW</td>
883    <td>Portable Network Graphics</td>
884    <td>8-bit indexed with optional binary transparency</td>
885  </tr>
886
887  <tr>
888    <td><a href="http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/">PNG00</a></td>
889    <td>RW</td>
890    <td>Portable Network Graphics</td>
891    <td>PNG inheriting subformat from original if possible</td>
892  </tr>
893
894  <tr>
895    <td><a href="http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/">PNG24</a></td>
896    <td>RW</td>
897    <td>Portable Network Graphics</td>
898    <td>opaque or binary transparent 24-bit RGB</td>
899  </tr>
900
901  <tr>
902    <td><a href="http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/">PNG32</a></td>
903    <td>RW</td>
904    <td>Portable Network Graphics</td>
905    <td>opaque or transparent 32-bit RGBA</td>
906  </tr>
907
908  <tr>
909    <td><a href="http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/">PNG48</a></td>
910    <td>RW</td>
911    <td>Portable Network Graphics</td>
912    <td>opaque or binary transparent 48-bit RGB</td>
913  </tr>
914
915  <tr>
916    <td><a href="http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/">PNG64</a></td>
917    <td>RW</td>
918    <td>Portable Network Graphics</td>
919    <td>opaque or transparent 64-bit RGB</td>
920  </tr>
921
922  <tr>
923    <td><a href="http://netpbm.sourceforge.net/doc/pnm.html">PNM</a></td>
924    <td>RW</td>
925    <td>Portable anymap</td>
926    <td>PNM is a family of formats supporting portable bitmaps (PBM) , graymaps (PGM), and pixmaps (PPM). There is no file format associated with pnm itself. If PNM is used as the output format specifier, then ImageMagick automagically selects the most appropriate format to represent the image.  The default is to write the binary version of the formats. Use <a href="command-line-options.html#compress">-compress none</a> to write the ASCII version of the formats.</td>
927  </tr>
928
929  <tr>
930    <td><a href="http://netpbm.sourceforge.net/doc/ppm.html">PPM</a></td>
931    <td>RW</td>
932    <td>Portable pixmap format (color)</td>
933    <td> </td>
934  </tr>
935
936  <tr>
937    <td>PS</td>
938    <td>RW</td>
939    <td>Adobe PostScript file</td>
940    <td>Requires <a href="http://www.cs.wisc.edu/%7Eghost">Ghostscript</a> to read. To force ImageMagick to respect the crop box, use <a href="command-line-options.html#define">-define</a> (e.g. <code>-define eps:use-cropbox=true</code>). Use <a href="command-line-options.html#density">-density</a> to improve the appearance of your Postscript rendering (e.g. -density 300x300). Use <a href="command-line-options.html#alpha">-alpha remove </a> to remove transparency. To specify direct conversion from PDF to Postscript, use <code>-define delegate:bimodel=true</code>.</td>
941  </tr>
942
943  <tr>
944    <td>PS2</td>
945    <td>RW</td>
946    <td>Adobe Level II PostScript file</td>
947    <td>Requires <a href="http://www.cs.wisc.edu/%7Eghost">Ghostscript</a> to read.</td>
948  </tr>
949
950  <tr>
951    <td>PS3</td>
952    <td>RW</td>
953    <td>Adobe Level III PostScript file</td>
954    <td>Requires <a href="http://www.cs.wisc.edu/%7Eghost">Ghostscript</a> to read.</td>
955  </tr>
956
957  <tr>
958    <td><a href="http://www.adobe.com/devnet-apps/photoshop/fileformatashtml/">PSB</a></td>
959    <td>RW</td>
960    <td>Adobe Large Document Format</td>
961    <td> </td>
962  </tr>
963
964  <tr>
965    <td><a href="http://www.adobe.com/devnet-apps/photoshop/fileformatashtml/">PSD</a></td>
966    <td>RW</td>
967    <td>Adobe Photoshop bitmap file</td>
968    <td>Use <a href="command-line-options.html#define">-define psd:alpha-unblend=off</a> to disable alpha blenning in the merged image. Use <a href="command-line-options.html#define">-define psd:additional-info=all|selective</a> to transfer additional information from the input PSD file to output PSD file. The 'selective' option will preserve all additional information that is not related to the geometry of the image. The 'all' option should only be used when the geometry of the image has not been changed. This option is helpful when transferring non-simple layers, such as adjustment layers from the input PSD file to the output PSD file. This define is available as of Imagemagick version 6.9.5-8. Use <a href="command-line-options.html#define">-define psd:preserve-opacity-mask=true</a> to preserve the opacity mask of a layer and add it back to the layer when the image is saved.</td>
969  </tr>
970
971  <tr>
972    <td>PTIF</td>
973    <td>RW</td>
974    <td>Pyramid encoded <a href="formats.html#TIFF">TIFF</a></td>
975    <td>Multi-resolution <a href="formats.html#TIFF">TIFF</a> containing successively smaller versions of the image down to the size of an icon.</td>
976  </tr>
977
978  <tr>
979    <td><a href="http://www.photoworks.com/">PWP</a></td>
980    <td>R</td>
981    <td>Seattle File Works multi-image file</td>
982    <td> </td>
983  </tr>
984
985  <tr>
986    <td>RAD</td>
987    <td>R</td>
988    <td>Radiance image file</td>
989    <td>Requires that <i>ra_ppm</i> from the Radiance software package be installed.</td>
990  </tr>
991
992  <tr>
993    <td>RAF</td>
994    <td>R</td>
995    <td>Fuji CCD-RAW Graphic File</td>
996    <td> </td>
997  </tr>
998
999  <tr>
1000    <td>RGB</td>
1001    <td>RW</td>
1002    <td>Raw red, green, and blue samples</td>
1003    <td>Use <a href="command-line-options.html#size">-size</a> and <a href="command-line-options.html#depth">-depth</a> to specify the image width, height, and depth.  To specify a single precision floating-point format, use <code>-define quantum:format=floating-point</code>.  Set the depth to 32 for single precision floats, 64 for double precision, and 16 for half-precision.</td>
1004  </tr>
1005
1006  <tr>
1007    <td>RGBA</td>
1008    <td>RW</td>
1009    <td>Raw red, green, blue, and alpha samples</td>
1010    <td>Use <a href="command-line-options.html#size">-size</a> and <a href="command-line-options.html#depth">-depth</a> to specify the image width, height, and depth.  To specify a single precision floating-point format, use <code>-define quantum:format=floating-point</code>.  Set the depth to 32 for single precision floats, 64 for double precision, and 16 for half-precision.</td>
1011  </tr>
1012
1013  <tr>
1014    <td>RGF</td>
1015    <td>RW</td>
1016    <td>LEGO Mindstorms EV3 Robot Graphics File</td>
1017    <td> </td>
1018  </tr>
1019
1020  <tr>
1021    <td>RLA</td>
1022    <td>R</td>
1023    <td>Alias/Wavefront image file</td>
1024    <td> </td>
1025  </tr>
1026
1027  <tr>
1028    <td>RLE</td>
1029    <td>R</td>
1030    <td>Utah Run length encoded image file</td>
1031    <td> </td>
1032  </tr>
1033
1034  <tr>
1035    <td><a href="http://www.oreilly.com/www/centers/gff/formats/scitex/">SCT</a></td>
1036    <td>R</td>
1037    <td>Scitex Continuous Tone Picture</td>
1038    <td> </td>
1039  </tr>
1040
1041  <tr>
1042    <td><a href="http://www.photoworks.com/">SFW</a></td>
1043    <td>R</td>
1044    <td>Seattle File Works image</td>
1045    <td> </td>
1046  </tr>
1047
1048  <tr>
1049    <td>SGI</td>
1050    <td>RW</td>
1051    <td>Irix RGB image</td>
1052    <td> </td>
1053  </tr>
1054
1055  <tr>
1056    <td>SHTML</td>
1057    <td>W</td>
1058    <td>Hypertext Markup Language client-side image map</td>
1059    <td>Used to write HTML clickable image maps based on a the output of <a href="montage.html">montage</a> or a format which supports tiled images such as <a href="formats.html#MIFF">MIFF</a>.</td>
1060  </tr>
1061
1062  <tr>
1063    <td>SID, MrSID</td>
1064    <td>R</td>
1065    <td>Multiresolution seamless image</td>
1066    <td>Requires the <a href="http://www.lizardtech.com/downloads/downloads.html?dl=/download/files/lin/geoexpress_commandlineutils_linux.tgz">mrsidgeodecode</a> command line utility that decompresses MG2 or MG3 SID image files.</td>
1067  </tr>
1068
1069  <tr>
1070    <td>SPARSE-COLOR</td>
1071    <td>W</td>
1072    <td>Raw text file</td>
1073    <td>Format compatible with the <a href="command-line-options.html#sparse-color">-sparse-color</a> option. Lists only non-fully-transparent pixels.</td>
1074  </tr>
1075
1076  <tr>
1077    <td>SUN</td>
1078    <td>RW</td>
1079    <td>SUN Rasterfile</td>
1080    <td> </td>
1081  </tr>
1082
1083  <tr>
1084    <td><a href="http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG">SVG</a></td>
1085    <td>RW</td>
1086    <td>Scalable Vector Graphics</td>
1087    <td>ImageMagick utilizes <a href="http://www.inkscape.org/">inkscape</a> if its in your execution path otherwise <a href="http://developer.gnome.org/rsvg/">RSVG</a>. If neither are available, ImageMagick reverts to its internal SVG renderer. The default resolution is 96 DPI. Use <a href="command-line-options.html#size">-size</a> command line option to specify the maximum width and height.</td>
1088  </tr>
1089
1090  <tr>
1091    <td>TEXT</td>
1092    <td>R</td>
1093    <td>text file</td>
1094    <td>Requires an explicit format specifier to read, e.g. text:README.txt.</td>
1095  </tr>
1096
1097  <tr>
1098    <td>TGA</td>
1099    <td>RW</td>
1100    <td>Truevision Targa image</td>
1101    <td>Also known as formats <code>ICB</code>, <code>VDA</code>, and <code>VST</code>.</td>
1102  </tr>
1103
1104  <tr>
1105    <td><a href="http://www.libtiff.org/">TIFF</a></td>
1106    <td>RW</td>
1107    <td>Tagged Image File Format</td>
1108    <td>Also known as <code>TIF</code>. Requires <a href="http://www.libtiff.org/">tiff-v3.6.1.tar.gz</a> or later.  Use <a href="command-line-options.html#define">-define</a> to specify the rows per strip (e.g. <code>-define tiff:rows-per-strip=8</code>).  To define the tile geometry, use for example, <code>-define tiff:tile-geometry=128x128</code>. To specify a <var>signed</var> format, use  <code>-define quantum:format=signed</code>. To specify a single-precision floating-point format, use <code>-define quantum:format=floating-point</code>.  Set the depth to 64 for a double-precision floating-point format.  Use <code>-define quantum:polarity=min-is-black</code> or <code>-define quantum:polarity=min-is-white</code> toggle the photometric interpretation for a bilevel image.  Specify the extra samples as associated or unassociated alpha with, for example, <code>-define tiff:alpha=unassociated</code>.  Set the fill order with <code>-define tiff:fill-order=msb|lsb</code>. Set the TIFF endianess with <code>-define tiff:endian=msb|lsb</code>. Use <code>-define tiff:exif-properties=false</code> to skip reading the EXIF properties.  You can set a number of TIFF software attributes including document name, host computer, artist, timestamp, make, model, software, and copyright.  For example, <a href="command-line-options.html#set">-set tiff:software "My Company"</a>. If you want to ignore certain TIFF tags, use this option: <code>-define tiff:ignore-tags=comma-separated-list-of-tag-IDs</code>. Since version 6.9.1-4 there is support for reading photoshop layers in TIFF files, this can be disabled with <code>-define tiff:ignore-layers=true</code></td>
1109  </tr>
1110
1111  <tr>
1112    <td>TIM</td>
1113    <td>R</td>
1114    <td>PSX TIM file</td>
1115    <td> </td>
1116  </tr>
1117
1118  <tr>
1119    <td><a href="http://www.freetype.org/">TTF</a></td>
1120    <td>R</td>
1121    <td>TrueType font file</td>
1122    <td>Requires <a href="http://www.freetype.org/">freetype 2</a>. Opening as file returns a preview image. Use <a href="command-line-options.html#set">-set</a> if you do not want to hint glyph outlines after their scaling to device pixels (e.g. <code>-set type:hinting off</code>).</td>
1123  </tr>
1124
1125  <tr>
1126    <td>TXT</td>
1127    <td>RW</td>
1128    <td>Raw text file</td>
1129    <td>Use <a href="command-line-options.html#define">-define</a> to specify the color compliance (e.g. <code>-define txt:compliance=css</code>).</td>
1130  </tr>
1131
1132   <tr>
1133    <td><a href="http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2800.pdf">UBRL</a></td>
1134    <td>W</td>
1135    <td>Unicode BRaiLle</td>
1136    <td>Uses juxtaposition of 8-dot braille patterns (thus 8x2 dot matrices) to reproduce images, using the Unicode Braille encoding.</td>
1137  </tr>
1138
1139  <tr>
1140    <td><a href="http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2800.pdf">UBRL6</a></td>
1141    <td>W</td>
1142    <td>Unicode BRaiLle 6 dots</td>
1143    <td>Uses juxtaposition of 6-dot braille patterns (thus 6x2 dot matrices) to reproduce images, using the Unicode Braille encoding.</td>
1144  </tr>
1145
1146  <tr>
1147    <td>UIL</td>
1148    <td>W</td>
1149    <td>X-Motif UIL table</td>
1150    <td> </td>
1151  </tr>
1152
1153  <tr>
1154    <td>UYVY</td>
1155    <td>RW</td>
1156    <td>Interleaved YUV raw image</td>
1157    <td>Use <a href="command-line-options.html#size">-size</a> and <a href="command-line-options.html#depth">-depth</a> command line options to specify width and height.  Use <a href="command-line-options.html#sampling-factor">-sampling-factor</a> to set the desired subsampling (e.g. -sampling-factor 4:2:2).</td>
1158  </tr>
1159
1160  <tr>
1161    <td>VICAR</td>
1162    <td>RW</td>
1163    <td>VICAR rasterfile format</td>
1164    <td> </td>
1165  </tr>
1166
1167  <tr>
1168    <td><a href="http://www.fileformat.info/format/viff/egff.htm">VIFF</a></td>
1169    <td>RW</td>
1170    <td>Khoros Visualization Image File Format</td>
1171    <td> </td>
1172  </tr>
1173
1174  <tr>
1175    <td><a href="http://www.openmobilealliance.org/Technical/wapindex.aspx">WBMP</a></td>
1176    <td>RW</td>
1177    <td>Wireless bitmap</td>
1178    <td>Support for uncompressed monochrome only.</td>
1179  </tr>
1180
1181  <tr>
1182    <td><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JPEG_XR">WDP</a></td>
1183    <td>RW</td>
1184    <td>JPEG extended range</td>
1185    <td>Requires the <a href="https://jxrlib.codeplex.com/">jxrlib</a> delegate library. Put the JxrDecApp and JxrEncApp applications in your execution path. </td>
1186  </tr>
1187
1188  <tr>
1189    <td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebP">WEBP</a></td>
1190    <td>RW</td>
1191    <td>Weppy image format</td>
1192    <td>Requires the <a href="https://developers.google.com/speed/webp/download">WEBP</a> delegate library.  Specify the encoding options with the <a href="command-line-options.html#define">-define</a> option  See <a href="webp.html">WebP Encoding Options</a> for more details.</td>
1193  </tr>
1194
1195  <tr>
1196    <td><a href="http://www.fileformat.info/format/wmf/egff.htm">WMF</a></td>
1197    <td>R</td>
1198    <td>Windows Metafile</td>
1199    <td>Requires <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/wvware/">libwmf</a>. By default, renders WMF files using the dimensions specified by the metafile header. Use the -density option to adjust the output resolution, and thereby adjust the output size. The default output resolution is 72DPI so <code>-density 144</code> results in an image twice as large as the default. Use <code>-background color</code> to specify the WMF background color (default white) or <code>-texture filename</code> to specify a background texture image.</td>
1200  </tr>
1201
1202  <tr>
1203    <td><a href="http://www.fileformat.info/format/wpg/egff.htm">WPG</a></td>
1204    <td>R</td>
1205    <td>Word Perfect Graphics File</td>
1206    <td> </td>
1207  </tr>
1208
1209  <tr>
1210    <td>X</td>
1211    <td>RW</td>
1212    <td>display or import an image to or from an X11 server</td>
1213    <td>Use <a href="command-line-options.html#define">-define</a> to obtain the image from the root window (e.g. <code>-define x:screen=true</code>).  Set <code>x:silent=true</code> to turn off the beep when importing an image.</td>
1214  </tr>
1215
1216  <tr>
1217    <td><a href="http://www.fileformat.info/format/xbm/egff.htm">XBM</a></td>
1218    <td>RW</td>
1219    <td>X Windows system bitmap, black and white only</td>
1220    <td>Used by the X Windows System to store monochrome icons.</td>
1221  </tr>
1222
1223  <tr>
1224    <td>XCF</td>
1225    <td>R</td>
1226    <td>GIMP image</td>
1227    <td> </td>
1228  </tr>
1229
1230  <tr>
1231    <td><a href="http://www.fileformat.info/format/xpm/egff.htm">XPM</a></td>
1232    <td>RW</td>
1233    <td>X Windows system pixmap</td>
1234    <td>Also known as <code>PM</code>. Used by the X Windows System to store color icons.</td>
1235  </tr>
1236
1237  <tr>
1238    <td><a href="http://www.fileformat.info/format/xwd/egff.htm">XWD</a></td>
1239    <td>RW</td>
1240    <td>X Windows system window dump</td>
1241    <td>Used by the X Windows System to save/display screen dumps.</td>
1242  </tr>
1243
1244  <tr>
1245    <td>X3F</td>
1246    <td>R</td>
1247    <td>Sigma Camera RAW Picture File</td>
1248    <td> </td>
1249  </tr>
1250
1251  <tr>
1252    <td>YCbCr</td>
1253    <td>RW</td>
1254    <td>Raw Y, Cb, and Cr samples</td>
1255    <td>Use <a href="command-line-options.html#size">-size</a> and <a href="command-line-options.html#depth">-depth</a> to specify the image width, height, and depth.</td>
1256  </tr>
1257
1258  <tr>
1259    <td>YCbCrA</td>
1260    <td>RW</td>
1261    <td>Raw Y, Cb, Cr, and alpha samples</td>
1262    <td>Use <a href="command-line-options.html#size">-size</a> and <a href="command-line-options.html#depth">-depth</a> to specify the image width, height, and depth.</td>
1263  </tr>
1264
1265  <tr>
1266    <td>YUV</td>
1267    <td>RW</td>
1268    <td>CCIR 601 4:1:1</td>
1269    <td>Use <a href="command-line-options.html#size">-size</a> and <a href="command-line-options.html#depth">-depth</a> command line options to specify width, height, and depth.   Use <a href="command-line-options.html#sampling-factor">-sampling-factor</a> to set the desired subsampling (e.g. -sampling-factor 4:2:2).</td>
1270  </tr>
1271  </tbody>
1272</table>
1273</div>
1274
1275<h2><a class="anchor" id="pseudo"></a>Pseudo-image Formats</h2>
1276
1277<p>ImageMagick supports a number of image format specifications which refer to images prepared via an algorithm, or input/output targets. The following table lists these pseudo-image formats:</p>
1278
1279<div class="table-responsive">
1280<table class="table table-sm table-striped">
1281  <tr>
1282    <th>Tag</th>
1283    <th>Mode</th>
1284    <th>Description</th>
1285    <th>Notes</th>
1286  </tr>
1287
1288  <tr>
1289    <td>CANVAS</td>
1290    <td>R</td>
1291    <td>Canvas image of specified color</td>
1292    <td>Useful to create solid color <var>canvas</var> images. Use
1293       <a href="command-line-options.html#size" >-size</a> and <a
1294       href="command-line-options.html#depth" >-depth</a> to specify the
1295       image width, height, and depth.  Example canvas color specifications
1296       include <code>canvas:red</code> and <code>canvas:#FF0000</code>.<br/>
1297
1298       If no color is specified a '<code>white</code>' canvas image is
1299       generated.  If no <a href="command-line-options.html#size" >-size</a> is specified
1300       a single pixel image of the specified color is generated.</td>
1301
1302  </tr>
1303
1304  <tr>
1305    <td>CAPTION</td>
1306    <td>R</td>
1307    <td>Image caption</td>
1308    <td> </td>
1309  </tr>
1310
1311  <tr>
1312    <td>CLIP</td>
1313    <td>RW</td>
1314    <td>Clip path of image</td>
1315    <td> </td>
1316  </tr>
1317
1318  <tr>
1319    <td>CLIPBOARD</td>
1320    <td>RW</td>
1321    <td>Windows Clipboard</td>
1322    <td>Only available under Microsoft Windows.</td>
1323  </tr>
1324
1325  <tr>
1326    <td>FRACTAL</td>
1327    <td>R</td>
1328    <td>Plasma fractal image</td>
1329    <td> </td>
1330  </tr>
1331
1332  <tr>
1333    <td>GRADIENT</td>
1334    <td>R</td>
1335    <td>Gradual passing from one shade to another</td>
1336    <td>Returns a rendered linear top-to-bottom <a href="gradient.html">gradient image</a> using the specified image size.</td>
1337
1338  </tr>
1339
1340  <tr>
1341    <td>HALD</td>
1342    <td>R</td>
1343    <td>Identity Hald CLUT Image</td>
1344    <td>Select levels like this: hald:[8] for level 8.</td>
1345  </tr>
1346
1347  <tr>
1348    <td>HISTOGRAM</td>
1349    <td>W</td>
1350    <td>Histogram of the image</td>
1351    <td>The histogram includes the unique colors of the image as an image comment.  If you have no need for the unique color list, use <code>-define histogram:unique-colors=false</code> to forego this expensive operation.</td>
1352  </tr>
1353
1354  <tr>
1355    <td>INLINE</td>
1356    <td>RW</td>
1357    <td>Base64-encoded inline image</td>
1358    <td>The inline image look similar to <code>inline:data:;base64,/9j/4AAQSk...knrn//2Q==</code>.  If the inline image exceeds 5000 characters, reference it from a file (e.g. <code>inline:inline.txt</code>). You can also write a base64-encoded image.  Embed the mime type in the filename, for example, <code>convert myimage inline:jpeg:myimage.txt</code>.</td>
1359  </tr>
1360
1361  <tr>
1362    <td>LABEL</td>
1363    <td>R</td>
1364    <td>Text image format</td>
1365    <td>Specify the desired text as the filename (e.g. <code>label:"This a label"</code>).</td>
1366  </tr>
1367
1368  <tr>
1369    <td>MAP</td>
1370    <td>RW</td>
1371    <td>Colormap intensities and indices</td>
1372    <td>Set -depth to set the sample size of the intensities; indices are 16-bit if colors &gt; 256.</td>
1373  </tr>
1374
1375  <tr>
1376    <td>MASK</td>
1377    <td>RW</td>
1378    <td>Image mask</td>
1379    <td> </td>
1380  </tr>
1381
1382  <tr>
1383    <td>MATTE</td>
1384    <td>W</td>
1385    <td>MATTE format</td>
1386    <td>Write only.</td>
1387  </tr>
1388
1389  <tr>
1390    <td>NULL</td>
1391    <td>RW</td>
1392    <td>NULL image</td>
1393    <td>Useful for creating blank tiles with <a href="montage.html">montage</a> (use <code>NULL:</code>). Also useful as an output format when evaluating image read performance.</td>
1394  </tr>
1395
1396  <tr>
1397    <td>PANGO</td>
1398    <td>R</td>
1399    <td>Image caption</td>
1400    <td>You can configure the caption layout with these defines: <code>-define pango:auto-dir=</code><var>true/false</var>, <code>-define pango:ellipsize=</code><var>start/middle/end</var>, <code>-define pango:gravity-hint=</code><var>natural/strong/line</var>, <code>-define pango:hinting=</code><var>none/auto/full</var>, <code>-define pango:indent=</code><var>points</var>, <code>-define pango:justify=</code><var>true/false</var>, <code>-define pango:language=</code><var>en_US/etc</var>, <code>-define pango:markup=</code><var>true/false</var>, <code>-define pango:single-paragraph=</code><var>true/false</var> and <code>-define pango:wrap=</code><var>word/char/word-char</var>.</td>
1401  </tr>
1402
1403  <tr>
1404    <td>PLASMA</td>
1405    <td>R</td>
1406    <td>Plasma fractal image</td>
1407    <td> </td>
1408  </tr>
1409
1410  <tr>
1411    <td>PREVIEW</td>
1412    <td>W</td>
1413    <td>Show a preview an image enhancement, effect, or f/x</td>
1414    <td>Creates a preview montage of images prepared over a parametric range in order to assist with parameter selection. Specify the desired
1415    preview type via the -preview option).</td>
1416  </tr>
1417
1418  <tr>
1419    <td>PRINT</td>
1420    <td>W</td>
1421    <td>Send image to your computer printer</td>
1422    <td>Unix users may set the PRINTER (for 'lpr') or LPDEST (for 'lp') environment variables to select the desired printer.</td>
1423  </tr>
1424
1425  <tr>
1426    <td>SCAN</td>
1427    <td>R</td>
1428    <td>Import image from a scanner device</td>
1429    <td>Requires <a href="http://www.sane-project.org/">SANE</a> Specify the device name and path as the filename (e.g.  <code>scan:'hpaio:/usb/Officejet_6200_series?serial=CN4ATCE3G20453'</code>).</td>
1430  </tr>
1431
1432  <tr>
1433    <td>RADIAL_GRADIENT</td>
1434    <td>R</td>
1435    <td>Gradual radial passing from one shade to another</td>
1436    <td>Returns a rendered radial top-to-bottom <a href="gradient.html">gradient image</a> using the specified image size.</td>
1437  </tr>
1438
1439  <tr>
1440    <td>SCANX</td>
1441    <td>R</td>
1442    <td>Import image from the default scanner device</td>
1443    <td> </td>
1444  </tr>
1445
1446  <tr>
1447    <td>SCREENSHOT</td>
1448    <td>R</td>
1449    <td>an image that shows the contents of a computer display</td>
1450    <td> </td>
1451  </tr>
1452
1453  <tr>
1454    <td>STEGANO</td>
1455    <td>R</td>
1456    <td>Steganographic image</td>
1457    <td>Use <a href="command-line-options.html#size">-size</a> command line option to specify width, height, and offset of the steganographic image</td>
1458  </tr>
1459
1460  <tr>
1461    <td>TILE</td>
1462    <td>R</td>
1463    <td>Tiled image</td>
1464    <td>Create a tiled version of an image at by tiling a image. Use <a href="command-line-options.html#size">-size</a> to specify the tiled image size. Tiles are composited on an image background and therefore is responsive to the <a href="command-line-options.html#compose">-compose</a> option.  The image is specified similar to
1465    <code>TILE:image.miff</code>.</td>
1466  </tr>
1467
1468  <tr>
1469    <td>UNIQUE</td>
1470    <td>W</td>
1471    <td>Write only unique pixels to the image file.</td>
1472    <td> </td>
1473  </tr>
1474
1475  <tr>
1476    <td>VID</td>
1477    <td>RW</td>
1478    <td>Visual Image Directory</td>
1479    <td>Used to create a thumbnailed directory (tiled thumbnails) of a set of images which may be used to select images to view via the <a href="display.html">display</a> program, or saved to a <a href="formats.html#MIFF">MIFF</a> or <a href="formats.html#SHTML">SHTML</a> file.</td>
1480  </tr>
1481
1482  <tr>
1483    <td>WIN</td>
1484    <td>RW</td>
1485    <td>Select image from or display image to your computer screen</td>
1486    <td>Only supported under Microsoft Windows.</td>
1487  </tr>
1488
1489  <tr>
1490    <td>X</td>
1491    <td>RW</td>
1492    <td>Select image from or display image to your X server screen</td>
1493    <td>Also see the <a href="import.html">import</a> and <a href="display.html">display</a>
1494    programs.</td>
1495  </tr>
1496
1497  <tr>
1498    <td>XC</td>
1499    <td>R</td>
1500    <td>Canvas image of specified color</td>
1501    <td>An backward compatible alias for the '<code>canvas:</code>'
1502    psuedo-file format, used to create a solid color <var>canvas</var> image.
1503    </td>
1504  </tr>
1505</table>
1506</div>
1507
1508<h2><a class="anchor" id="builtin-images"></a>Built-in Images</h2>
1509
1510<p>ImageMagick includes a number of built-in (embedded) images which may be referenced as if they were an image file. The <code>magick:</code> format tag may be used via the syntax <code>magick:</code><var>name</var> to request an embedded image (e.g. <code>magick:logo</code>). For backwards compatibility, the image specifications <code>GRANITE:</code>, <code>LOGO:</code>, <code>NETSCAPE:</code>, and <code>ROSE:</code> may also be used to request images with those names.</p>
1511
1512<div class="table-responsive">
1513<table class="table table-sm table-striped">
1514  <tr>
1515    <th>Tag</th>
1516    <th>Mode</th>
1517    <th>Description</th>
1518    <th>Notes</th>
1519  </tr>
1520
1521  <tr>
1522    <td>GRANITE</td>
1523    <td>R</td>
1524    <td>128x128 granite texture pattern</td>
1525    <td><img src="../images/granite.png" width="64" height="64" alt="GRANITE"/></td>
1526  </tr>
1527
1528  <tr>
1529    <td><a href="../images/logo.png">LOGO</a></td>
1530    <td>R</td>
1531    <td>ImageMagick Logo, 640x480</td>
1532    <td><img src="../images/logo.jpg" width="123" height="118" alt="Logo"/></td>
1533  </tr>
1534
1535  <tr>
1536    <td> NETSCAPE</td>
1537    <td>R</td>
1538    <td>image using colors in Netscape 216 (6x6x6 ) color cube, 216x144</td>
1539    <td>Most commonly used with the <a href="convert.html">convert</a> and <a href="mogrify.html">mogrify</a> programs with the <a href="command-line-options.html#map">-map</a> option to create <var>web safe</var> images.</td>
1540  </tr>
1541
1542  <tr>
1543    <td>ROSE</td>
1544    <td>R</td>
1545    <td>Picture of a rose, 70x46</td>
1546    <td><img src="../images/rose.png" width="70" height="46" alt="ROSE"/></td>
1547  </tr>
1548
1549  <tr>
1550    <td><a href="../images/wizard.png">WIZARD</a></td>
1551    <td>R</td>
1552    <td>ImageMagick Wizard, 480x640</td>
1553    <td><img src="../images/wizard.jpg" width="125" height="167" alt="Logo"/></td>
1554  </tr>
1555
1556</table></div>
1557
1558<h2><a class="anchor" id="builtin-patterns"></a>Built-in Patterns</h2>
1559
1560<p>ImageMagick includes a number of built-in (embedded) patterns which may be referenced as if they were an image file. The <code>pattern:</code> format tag may be used via the syntax <code>pattern:</code><var>name</var> to request an embedded pattern (e.g. <code>pattern:checkerboard</code>). The pattern size is controlled with the <a href="command-line-options.html#size">-size</a> command line option.</p>
1561
1562<div class="table-responsive">
1563<table class="table table-sm table-striped">
1564  <tr>
1565    <th>Tag</th>
1566    <th>Mode</th>
1567    <th>Description</th>
1568    <th>Notes</th>
1569  </tr>
1570
1571  <tr>
1572    <td>BRICKS</td>
1573    <td>R</td>
1574    <td>brick pattern, 16x16</td>
1575    <td><img src="../images/patterns/bricks.png" width="100" height="26" alt="BRICKS" /></td>
1576  </tr>
1577
1578  <tr>
1579    <td>CHECKERBOARD</td>
1580    <td>R</td>
1581    <td>checkerboard pattern, 30x30</td>
1582    <td><img src="../images/patterns/checkerboard.png" width="100" height="26" alt="CHECKERBOARD" /></td>
1583  </tr>
1584
1585  <tr>
1586    <td>CIRCLES</td>
1587    <td>R</td>
1588    <td>circles pattern, 16x16</td>
1589    <td><img src="../images/patterns/circles.png" width="100" height="26" alt="CIRCLES"/></td>
1590  </tr>
1591
1592  <tr>
1593    <td>CROSSHATCH</td>
1594    <td>R</td>
1595    <td>crosshatch pattern, 8x4</td>
1596    <td><img src="../images/patterns/crosshatch.png" width="100" height="26" alt="CROSSHATCH" /></td>
1597  </tr>
1598
1599  <tr>
1600    <td>CROSSHATCH30</td>
1601    <td>R</td>
1602    <td>crosshatch pattern with lines at 30 degrees, 8x4</td>
1603    <td><img src="../images/patterns/crosshatch30.png" width="100" height="26" alt="CROSSHATCH30" /></td>
1604  </tr>
1605
1606  <tr>
1607    <td>CROSSHATCH45</td>
1608    <td>R</td>
1609    <td>crosshatch pattern with lines at 45 degrees, 8x4</td>
1610    <td><img src="../images/patterns/crosshatch45.png" width="100" height="26" alt="CROSSHATCH45" /></td>
1611  </tr>
1612
1613  <tr>
1614    <td>FISHSCALES</td>
1615    <td>R</td>
1616    <td>fish scales pattern, 16x8</td>
1617    <td><img src="../images/patterns/fishscales.png" width="100" height="26" alt="FISHSCALES" /></td>
1618  </tr>
1619
1620  <tr>
1621    <td>GRAY0</td>
1622    <td>R</td>
1623    <td>0% intensity gray, 32x32</td>
1624    <td><img src="../images/patterns/gray0.png" width="100" height="32" alt="GRAY0" /></td>
1625  </tr>
1626
1627  <tr>
1628    <td>GRAY5</td>
1629    <td>R</td>
1630    <td>5% intensity gray, 32x32</td>
1631    <td><img src="../images/patterns/gray5.png" width="100" height="32" alt="GRAY5" /></td>
1632  </tr>
1633
1634  <tr>
1635    <td>GRAY10</td>
1636    <td>R</td>
1637    <td>10% intensity gray, 32x32</td>
1638    <td> <img src="../images/patterns/gray10.png" width="100" height="32" alt="GRAY10" /></td>
1639  </tr>
1640
1641  <tr>
1642    <td>GRAY15</td>
1643    <td>R</td>
1644    <td>15% intensity gray, 32x32</td>
1645    <td><img src="../images/patterns/gray15.png" width="100" height="32" alt="GRAY15" /></td>
1646  </tr>
1647
1648  <tr>
1649    <td>GRAY20</td>
1650    <td>R</td>
1651    <td>20% intensity gray, 32x32</td>
1652    <td><img src="../images/patterns/gray20.png" width="100" height="32" alt="GRAY20" /></td>
1653  </tr>
1654
1655  <tr>
1656    <td>GRAY25</td>
1657    <td>R</td>
1658    <td>25% intensity gray, 32x32</td>
1659    <td><img src="../images/patterns/gray25.png" width="100" height="32" alt="GRAY25" /></td>
1660  </tr>
1661
1662  <tr>
1663    <td>GRAY30</td>
1664    <td>R</td>
1665    <td>30% intensity gray, 32x32</td>
1666    <td><img src="../images/patterns/gray30.png" width="100" height="32" alt="GRAY30" /></td>
1667  </tr>
1668
1669  <tr>
1670    <td>GRAY35</td>
1671    <td>R</td>
1672    <td>35% intensity gray, 32x32</td>
1673    <td><img src="../images/patterns/gray35.png" width="100" height="32" alt="GRAY35" /></td>
1674  </tr>
1675
1676  <tr>
1677    <td>GRAY40</td>
1678    <td>R</td>
1679    <td>40% intensity gray, 32x32</td>
1680    <td><img src="../images/patterns/gray40.png" width="100" height="32" alt="GRAY40" /></td>
1681  </tr>
1682
1683  <tr>
1684    <td>GRAY45</td>
1685    <td>R</td>
1686    <td>45% intensity gray, 32x32</td>
1687    <td><img src="../images/patterns/gray45.png" width="100" height="32" alt="GRAY45" /></td>
1688  </tr>
1689
1690  <tr>
1691    <td>GRAY50</td>
1692    <td>R</td>
1693    <td>50% intensity gray, 32x32</td>
1694    <td><img src="../images/patterns/gray50.png" width="100" height="32" alt="GRAY50" /></td>
1695  </tr>
1696
1697  <tr>
1698    <td>GRAY55</td>
1699    <td>R</td>
1700    <td>55% intensity gray, 32x32</td>
1701    <td><img src="../images/patterns/gray55.png" width="100" height="32" alt="GRAY55" /></td>
1702  </tr>
1703
1704  <tr>
1705    <td>GRAY60</td>
1706    <td>R</td>
1707    <td>60% intensity gray, 32x32</td>
1708    <td><img src="../images/patterns/gray60.png" width="100" height="32" alt="GRAY60" /></td>
1709  </tr>
1710
1711  <tr>
1712    <td>GRAY65</td>
1713    <td>R</td>
1714    <td>65% intensity gray, 32x32</td>
1715    <td><img src="../images/patterns/gray65.png" width="100" height="32" alt="GRAY65" /></td>
1716  </tr>
1717
1718  <tr>
1719    <td>GRAY70</td>
1720    <td>R</td>
1721    <td>70% intensity gray, 32x32</td>
1722    <td><img src="../images/patterns/gray70.png" width="100" height="32" alt="GRAY70" /></td>
1723  </tr>
1724
1725  <tr>
1726    <td>GRAY75</td>
1727    <td>R</td>
1728    <td>75% intensity gray, 32x32</td>
1729    <td><img src="../images/patterns/gray75.png" width="100" height="32" alt="GRAY75" /></td>
1730  </tr>
1731
1732  <tr>
1733    <td>GRAY80</td>
1734    <td>R</td>
1735    <td>80% intensity gray, 32x32</td>
1736    <td> <img src="../images/patterns/gray80.png" width="100" height="32" alt="GRAY80" /></td>
1737  </tr>
1738
1739  <tr>
1740    <td>GRAY85</td>
1741    <td>R</td>
1742    <td>85% intensity gray, 32x32</td>
1743    <td><img src="../images/patterns/gray85.png" width="100" height="32" alt="GRAY85" /></td>
1744  </tr>
1745
1746  <tr>
1747    <td>GRAY90</td>
1748    <td>R</td>
1749    <td>90% intensity gray, 32x32</td>
1750    <td><img src="../images/patterns/gray90.png" width="100" height="32" alt="GRAY90" /></td>
1751  </tr>
1752
1753  <tr>
1754    <td>GRAY95</td>
1755    <td>R</td>
1756    <td>95% intensity gray, 32x32</td>
1757    <td><img src="../images/patterns/gray95.png" width="100" height="32" alt="GRAY95" /></td>
1758  </tr>
1759
1760  <tr>
1761    <td>GRAY100</td>
1762    <td>R</td>
1763    <td>100% intensity gray, 32x32</td>
1764    <td><img src="../images/patterns/gray100.png" width="100" height="32" alt="GRAY100" /></td>
1765  </tr>
1766
1767  <tr>
1768    <td>HEXAGONS</td>
1769    <td>R</td>
1770    <td>hexagon pattern, 30x18</td>
1771    <td><img src="../images/patterns/hexagons.png" width="100" height="26" alt="HEXAGONS" /></td>
1772  </tr>
1773
1774  <tr>
1775    <td>HORIZONTAL</td>
1776    <td>R</td>
1777    <td>horizontal line pattern, 8x4</td>
1778    <td><img src="../images/patterns/horizontal.png" width="100" height="26" alt="HORIZONTAL" /></td>
1779  </tr>
1780
1781  <tr>
1782    <td>HORIZONTAL2</td>
1783    <td>R</td>
1784    <td>horizontal line pattern, 8x8</td>
1785    <td><img src="../images/patterns/horizontal2.png" width="100" height="26" alt="HORIZONTAL2" /></td>
1786  </tr>
1787
1788  <tr>
1789    <td>HORIZONTAL3</td>
1790    <td>R</td>
1791    <td>horizontal line pattern, 9x9</td>
1792    <td><img src="../images/patterns/horizontal3.png" width="100" height="26" alt="HORIZONTAL3" /></td>
1793  </tr>
1794
1795  <tr>
1796    <td>HORIZONTALSAW</td>
1797    <td>R</td>
1798    <td>horizontal saw-tooth pattern, 16x8</td>
1799    <td><img src="../images/patterns/horizontalsaw.png" width="100" height="26" alt="HORIZONTALSAW" /></td>
1800  </tr>
1801
1802  <tr>
1803    <td>HS_BDIAGONAL</td>
1804    <td>R</td>
1805    <td>backward diagonal line pattern (45 degrees slope), 8x8</td>
1806    <td><img src="../images/patterns/hs_bdiagonal.png" width="100" height="26" alt="HS_BDIAGONAL" /></td>
1807  </tr>
1808
1809  <tr>
1810    <td>HS_CROSS</td>
1811    <td>R</td>
1812    <td>cross line pattern, 8x8</td>
1813    <td><img src="../images/patterns/hs_cross.png" width="100" height="26" alt="HS_CROSS" /></td>
1814  </tr>
1815
1816  <tr>
1817    <td>HS_DIAGCROSS</td>
1818    <td>R</td>
1819    <td>diagonal line cross pattern (45 degrees slope), 8x8</td>
1820    <td><img src="../images/patterns/hs_diagcross.png" width="100" height="26" alt="HS_DIAGCROSS" /></td>
1821  </tr>
1822
1823  <tr>
1824    <td>HS_FDIAGONAL</td>
1825    <td>R</td>
1826    <td>forward diagonal line pattern (45 degrees slope), 8x8</td>
1827    <td><img src="../images/patterns/hs_fdiagonal.png" width="100" height="26" alt="HS_FDIAGONAL" /></td>
1828  </tr>
1829
1830  <tr>
1831    <td>HS_HORIZONTAL</td>
1832    <td>R</td>
1833    <td>horizontal line pattern, 8x8</td>
1834    <td><img src="../images/patterns/hs_horizontal.png" width="100" height="26" alt="HS_HORIZONTAL" /></td>
1835  </tr>
1836
1837  <tr>
1838    <td>HS_VERTICAL</td>
1839    <td>R</td>
1840    <td>vertical line pattern, 8x8</td>
1841    <td><img src="../images/patterns/hs_vertical.png" width="100" height="26" alt="HS_VERTICAL" /></td>
1842  </tr>
1843
1844  <tr>
1845    <td>LEFT30</td>
1846    <td>R</td>
1847    <td>forward diagonal pattern (30 degrees slope), 8x4</td>
1848    <td><img src="../images/patterns/left30.png" width="100" height="26" alt="LEFT0" /></td>
1849  </tr>
1850
1851  <tr>
1852    <td>LEFT45</td>
1853    <td>R</td>
1854    <td>forward diagonal line pattern (45 degrees slope), 8x8</td>
1855    <td><img src="../images/patterns/left45.png" width="100" height="26" alt="LEFT45" /></td>
1856  </tr>
1857
1858  <tr>
1859    <td>LEFTSHINGLE</td>
1860    <td>R</td>
1861    <td>left shingle pattern, 24x24</td>
1862    <td><img src="../images/patterns/leftshingle.png" width="100" height="26" alt="LEFTSHINGLE" /></td>
1863  </tr>
1864
1865  <tr>
1866    <td>OCTAGONS</td>
1867    <td>R</td>
1868    <td>octagons pattern, 16x16</td>
1869    <td><img src="../images/patterns/octagons.png" width="100" height="26" alt="OCTAGONS" /></td>
1870  </tr>
1871
1872  <tr>
1873    <td>RIGHT30</td>
1874    <td>R</td>
1875    <td>backward diagonal line pattern (30 degrees) 8x4</td>
1876    <td><img src="../images/patterns/right30.png" width="100" height="26" alt="RIGHT30" /></td>
1877  </tr>
1878
1879  <tr>
1880    <td>RIGHT45</td>
1881    <td>R</td>
1882    <td>backward diagonal line pattern (30 degrees), 8x8</td>
1883    <td><img src="../images/patterns/right45.png" width="100" height="26" alt="RIGHT45" /></td>
1884  </tr>
1885
1886  <tr>
1887    <td>RIGHTSHINGLE</td>
1888    <td>R</td>
1889    <td>right shingle pattern, 24x24</td>
1890    <td><img src="../images/patterns/rightshingle.png" width="100" height="26" alt="RIGHTSHINGLE" /></td>
1891  </tr>
1892
1893  <tr>
1894    <td>SMALLFISHSCALES</td>
1895    <td>R</td>
1896    <td>small fish scales pattern, 8x8</td>
1897    <td><img src="../images/patterns/smallfishscales.png" width="100" height="26" alt="SMALLFISHSCALES" /></td>
1898  </tr>
1899
1900  <tr>
1901    <td>VERTICAL</td>
1902    <td>R</td>
1903    <td>vertical line pattern, 8x8</td>
1904    <td><img src="../images/patterns/vertical.png" width="100" height="26" alt="VERTICAL" /></td>
1905  </tr>
1906
1907  <tr>
1908    <td>VERTICAL2</td>
1909    <td>R</td>
1910    <td>vertical line pattern, 8x8</td>
1911    <td><img src="../images/patterns/vertical2.png" width="100" height="26" alt="VERTICAL2" /></td>
1912  </tr>
1913
1914  <tr>
1915    <td>VERTICAL3</td>
1916    <td>R</td>
1917    <td>vertical line pattern, 9x9</td>
1918    <td><img src="../images/patterns/vertical3.png" width="100" height="26" alt="VERTICAL3" /></td>
1919  </tr>
1920
1921  <tr>
1922    <td>VERTICALBRICKS</td>
1923    <td>R</td>
1924    <td>vertical brick pattern, 16x16</td>
1925    <td><img src="../images/patterns/verticalbricks.png" width="100" height="26" alt="VERTICALBRICKS" /></td>
1926  </tr>
1927
1928  <tr>
1929    <td>VERTICALLEFTSHINGLE</td>
1930    <td>R</td>
1931    <td>vertical left shingle pattern, 24x24</td>
1932    <td><img src="../images/patterns/verticalleftshingle.png" width="100" height="26" alt="VERTICALLEFTSHINGLE" /></td>
1933  </tr>
1934
1935  <tr>
1936    <td>VERTICALRIGHTSHINGLE</td>
1937    <td>R</td>
1938    <td>vertical right shingle pattern, 24x24</td>
1939    <td><img src="../images/patterns/verticalrightshingle.png" width="100" height="26" alt="VERTICALRIGHTSHINGLE" /></td>
1940  </tr>
1941
1942  <tr>
1943    <td>VERTICALSAW</td>
1944    <td>R</td>
1945    <td>vertical saw-tooth pattern, 8x16</td>
1946    <td><img src="../images/patterns/verticalsaw.png" width="100" height="26" alt="VERTICALSAW" /></td>
1947  </tr>
1948</table></div>
1949
1950<h2><a class="anchor" id="embedded"></a>Embedded Image Profiles</h2>
1951
1952<p>ImageMagick provides a number of format identifiers which are used to add, remove, and save embedded profiles for images which can support embedded profiles. Image types which may contain embedded profiles are TIFF, JPEG, and PDF.</p>
1953
1954<div class="table-responsive">
1955<table class="table table-sm table-striped">
1956  <tbody>
1957  <tr>
1958    <th>Tag</th>
1959    <th>Mode</th>
1960    <th>Description</th>
1961    <th>Notes</th>
1962  </tr>
1963
1964  <tr>
1965    <td>8BIM</td>
1966    <td>RW</td>
1967    <td>Photoshop resource format (binary)</td>
1968    <td> </td>
1969  </tr>
1970
1971  <tr>
1972    <td>8BIMTEXT</td>
1973    <td>RW</td>
1974    <td>Photoshop resource format (ASCII)</td>
1975    <td>An ASCII representation of the 8BIM format.</td>
1976  </tr>
1977
1978  <tr>
1979    <td>APP1</td>
1980    <td>RW</td>
1981    <td>Raw application information</td>
1982    <td> </td>
1983  </tr>
1984
1985  <tr>
1986    <td>APP1JPEG</td>
1987    <td>RW</td>
1988    <td>Raw JPEG binary data</td>
1989    <td>Profile in JPEG wrapper.</td>
1990  </tr>
1991
1992  <tr>
1993    <td>ICC</td>
1994    <td>RW</td>
1995    <td>International Color Consortium color profile</td>
1996    <td>Also known as <code>ICM</code>. To read, use <a href="command-line-options.html#profile">-profile</a> with
1997      <a href="convert.html">convert</a>.</td>
1998  </tr>
1999
2000  <tr>
2001    <td>IPTC</td>
2002    <td>RW</td>
2003    <td>IPTC Newsphoto (binary)</td>
2004    <td>To read, use <a href="command-line-options.html#profile">-profile</a> with <a href="convert.html">convert</a></td>
2005  </tr>
2006
2007  <tr>
2008    <td>IPTCTEXT</td>
2009    <td>RW</td>
2010    <td>IPTC Newsphoto (ASCII)</td>
2011    <td>An ASCII representation of the IPTC format.</td>
2012  </tr>
2013  </tbody>
2014</table></div>
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