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ubuntu@precise64:/vagrant$ convert -list format
Format Mode Description
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3FR r-- Hasselblad CFV/H3D39II
A* rw+ Raw alpha samples
AAI* rw+ AAI Dune image
AI rw- Adobe Illustrator CS2
ART* rw- PFS: 1st Publisher Clip Art
ARW r-- Sony Alpha Raw Image Format
AVI r-- Microsoft Audio/Visual Interleaved
AVS* rw+ AVS X image
B* rw+ Raw blue samples
BGR* rw+ Raw blue, green, and red samples
BGRA* rw+ Raw blue, green, red, and alpha samples
BMP* rw- Microsoft Windows bitmap image
BMP2* -w- Microsoft Windows bitmap image (V2)
BMP3* -w- Microsoft Windows bitmap image (V3)
BRF* -w- BRF ASCII Braille format
C* rw+ Raw cyan samples
CAL* rw- Continuous Acquisition and Life-cycle Support Type 1
Specified in MIL-R-28002 and MIL-PRF-28002
CALS* rw- Continuous Acquisition and Life-cycle Support Type 1
Specified in MIL-R-28002 and MIL-PRF-28002
CANVAS* r-- Constant image uniform color
CAPTION* r-- Caption
CIN* rw- Cineon Image File
CIP* -w- Cisco IP phone image format
CLIP* rw+ Image Clip Mask
CMYK* rw+ Raw cyan, magenta, yellow, and black samples
CMYKA* rw+ Raw cyan, magenta, yellow, black, and alpha samples
CR2 r-- Canon Digital Camera Raw Image Format
CRW r-- Canon Digital Camera Raw Image Format
CUR* rw- Microsoft icon
CUT* r-- DR Halo
DCM* r-- Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine image
DICOM is used by the medical community for images like X-rays. The
specification, "Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine
(DICOM)", is available at http://medical.nema.org/. In particular,
see part 5 which describes the image encoding (RLE, JPEG, JPEG-LS),
and supplement 61 which adds JPEG-2000 encoding.
DCR r-- Kodak Digital Camera Raw Image File
DCX* rw+ ZSoft IBM PC multi-page Paintbrush
DDS* rw+ Microsoft DirectDraw Surface
DFONT* r-- Multi-face font package (Freetype 2.4.8)
DJVU* r-- D�j� vu
See http://www.djvuzone.org/ for details about the DJVU format. The
DJVU 1.2 specification is available there and at
ftp://swrinde.nde.swri.edu/pub/djvu/documents/.
DNG r-- Digital Negative
DPX* rw- SMPTE 268M-2003 (DPX 2.0)
Digital Moving Picture Exchange Bitmap, Version 2.0.
See SMPTE 268M-2003 specification at http://www.smtpe.org
DXT1* rw+ Microsoft DirectDraw Surface
DXT5* rw+ Microsoft DirectDraw Surface
EPDF rw- Encapsulated Portable Document Format
EPI rw- Encapsulated PostScript Interchange format
EPS rw- Encapsulated PostScript
EPS2* -w- Level II Encapsulated PostScript
EPS3* -w+ Level III Encapsulated PostScript
EPSF rw- Encapsulated PostScript
EPSI rw- Encapsulated PostScript Interchange format
EPT rw- Encapsulated PostScript with TIFF preview
EPT2 rw- Encapsulated PostScript Level II with TIFF preview
EPT3 rw+ Encapsulated PostScript Level III with TIFF preview
ERF r-- Epson RAW Format
EXR rw- High Dynamic-range (HDR)
FAX* rw+ Group 3 FAX
FAX machines use non-square pixels which are 1.5 times wider than
they are tall but computer displays use square pixels, therefore
FAX images may appear to be narrow unless they are explicitly
resized using a geometry of "150x100%".
FITS* rw- Flexible Image Transport System
FRACTAL* r-- Plasma fractal image
FTS* rw- Flexible Image Transport System
G* rw+ Raw green samples
G3* rw- Group 3 FAX
GIF* rw+ CompuServe graphics interchange format
GIF87* rw- CompuServe graphics interchange format (version 87a)
GRADIENT* r-- Gradual linear passing from one shade to another
GRAY* rw+ Raw gray samples
GROUP4* rw- Raw CCITT Group4
HALD* r-- Identity Hald color lookup table image
HDR* rw+ Radiance RGBE image format
HISTOGRAM* -w- Histogram of the image
HRZ* rw- Slow Scan TeleVision
HTM* -w- Hypertext Markup Language and a client-side image map
HTML* -w- Hypertext Markup Language and a client-side image map
ICB* rw- Truevision Targa image
ICO* rw+ Microsoft icon
ICON* rw- Microsoft icon
INFO -w+ The image format and characteristics
INLINE* r-- Base64-encoded inline images
IPL* rw+ IPL Image Sequence
ISOBRL* -w- ISO/TR 11548-1 format
JNG* rw- JPEG Network Graphics
See http://www.libpng.org/pub/mng/ for details about the JNG
format.
JNX* r-- Garmin tile format
JPEG* rw- Joint Photographic Experts Group JFIF format (80)
JPG* rw- Joint Photographic Experts Group JFIF format (80)
JSON -w+ The image format and characteristics
K* rw+ Raw black samples
K25 r-- Kodak Digital Camera Raw Image Format
KDC r-- Kodak Digital Camera Raw Image Format
LABEL* r-- Image label
M* rw+ Raw magenta samples
M2V rw+ MPEG Video Stream
M4V rw+ Raw MPEG-4 Video
MAC* r-- MAC Paint
MAP* rw- Colormap intensities and indices
MASK* rw+ Image Clip Mask
MAT rw+ MATLAB level 5 image format
MATTE* -w+ MATTE format
MEF r-- Mamiya Raw Image File
MIFF* rw+ Magick Image File Format
MNG* rw+ Multiple-image Network Graphics (libpng 1.2.46)
See http://www.libpng.org/pub/mng/ for details about the MNG
format.
MONO* rw- Raw bi-level bitmap
MOV rw+ MPEG Video Stream
MP4 rw+ MPEG-4 Video Stream
MPC* rw+ Magick Persistent Cache image format
MPEG rw+ MPEG Video Stream
MPG rw+ MPEG Video Stream
MRW r-- Sony (Minolta) Raw Image File
MSL* rw+ Magick Scripting Language
MSVG rw+ ImageMagick's own SVG internal renderer
MTV* rw+ MTV Raytracing image format
MVG* rw- Magick Vector Graphics
NEF r-- Nikon Digital SLR Camera Raw Image File
NRW r-- Nikon Digital SLR Camera Raw Image File
NULL* rw- Constant image of uniform color
O* rw+ Raw opacity samples
ORF r-- Olympus Digital Camera Raw Image File
OTB* rw- On-the-air bitmap
OTF* r-- Open Type font (Freetype 2.4.8)
PAL* rw- 16bit/pixel interleaved YUV
PALM* rw+ Palm pixmap
PAM* rw+ Common 2-dimensional bitmap format
PANGO* r-- Pango Markup Language (Pangocairo 1.30.0)
PATTERN* r-- Predefined pattern
PBM* rw+ Portable bitmap format (black and white)
PCD* rw- Photo CD
PCDS* rw- Photo CD
PCL rw+ Printer Control Language
PCT* rw- Apple Macintosh QuickDraw/PICT
PCX* rw- ZSoft IBM PC Paintbrush
PDB* rw+ Palm Database ImageViewer Format
PDF rw+ Portable Document Format
PDFA rw+ Portable Document Archive Format
PEF r-- Pentax Electronic File
PES* r-- Embrid Embroidery Format
PFA* r-- Postscript Type 1 font (ASCII) (Freetype 2.4.8)
PFB* r-- Postscript Type 1 font (binary) (Freetype 2.4.8)
PFM* rw+ Portable float format
PGM* rw+ Portable graymap format (gray scale)
PICON* rw- Personal Icon
PICT* rw- Apple Macintosh QuickDraw/PICT
PIX* r-- Alias/Wavefront RLE image format
PJPEG* rw- Joint Photographic Experts Group JFIF format (80)
PLASMA* r-- Plasma fractal image
PNG* rw- Portable Network Graphics (libpng 1.2.46)
See http://www.libpng.org/ for details about the PNG format.
PNG00* rw- PNG inheriting bit-depth and color-type from original
PNG24* rw- opaque or binary transparent 24-bit RGB (zlib 1.2.3.4)
PNG32* rw- opaque or transparent 32-bit RGBA
PNG48* rw- opaque or binary transparent 48-bit RGB
PNG64* rw- opaque or transparent 64-bit RGBA
PNG8* rw- 8-bit indexed with optional binary transparency
PNM* rw+ Portable anymap
PPM* rw+ Portable pixmap format (color)
PREVIEW* -w- Show a preview an image enhancement, effect, or f/x
PS rw+ PostScript
PS2* -w+ Level II PostScript
PS3* -w+ Level III PostScript
PSB* rw+ Adobe Large Document Format
PSD* rw+ Adobe Photoshop bitmap
PTIF* rw+ Pyramid encoded TIFF
PWP* r-- Seattle Film Works
R* rw+ Raw red samples
RADIAL-GRADIENT* r-- Gradual radial passing from one shade to another
RAF r-- Fuji CCD-RAW Graphic File
RAS* rw+ SUN Rasterfile
RGB* rw+ Raw red, green, and blue samples
RGBA* rw+ Raw red, green, blue, and alpha samples
RGBO* rw+ Raw red, green, blue, and opacity samples
RGF* rw- LEGO Mindstorms EV3 Robot Graphic Format (black and white)
RLA* r-- Alias/Wavefront image
RLE* r-- Utah Run length encoded image
RMF r-- Raw Media Format
RW2 r-- Panasonic Lumix Raw Image
SCR* r-- ZX-Spectrum SCREEN$
SCT* r-- Scitex HandShake
SFW* r-- Seattle Film Works
SGI* rw+ Irix RGB image
SHTML* -w- Hypertext Markup Language and a client-side image map
SPARSE-COLOR* -w+ Sparse Color
SR2 r-- Sony Raw Format 2
SRF r-- Sony Raw Format
STEGANO* r-- Steganographic image
SUN* rw+ SUN Rasterfile
SVG rw+ Scalable Vector Graphics (XML 2.7.8)
SVGZ rw+ Compressed Scalable Vector Graphics (XML 2.7.8)
TEXT* rw+ Text
TGA* rw- Truevision Targa image
THUMBNAIL* -w+ EXIF Profile Thumbnail
TIFF* rw+ Tagged Image File Format (LIBTIFF, Version 3.9.5)
TIFF64* --- Tagged Image File Format (64-bit) (LIBTIFF, Version 3.9.5)
TILE* r-- Tile image with a texture
TIM* r-- PSX TIM
TTC* r-- TrueType font collection (Freetype 2.4.8)
TTF* r-- TrueType font (Freetype 2.4.8)
TXT* rw+ Text
UBRL* -w- Unicode Text format
UIL* -w- X-Motif UIL table
UYVY* rw- 16bit/pixel interleaved YUV
VDA* rw- Truevision Targa image
VICAR* rw- VICAR rasterfile format
VID* rw+ Visual Image Directory
VIFF* rw+ Khoros Visualization image
VST* rw- Truevision Targa image
WBMP* rw- Wireless Bitmap (level 0) image
WMV rw+ Windows Media Video
WPG* r-- Word Perfect Graphics
X* rw+ X Image
X3F r-- Sigma Camera RAW Picture File
XBM* rw- X Windows system bitmap (black and white)
XC* r-- Constant image uniform color
XCF* r-- GIMP image
XPM* rw- X Windows system pixmap (color)
XPS r-- Microsoft XML Paper Specification
XV* rw+ Khoros Visualization image
XWD* rw- X Windows system window dump (color)
Y* rw+ Raw yellow samples
YCbCr* rw+ Raw Y, Cb, and Cr samples
YCbCrA* rw+ Raw Y, Cb, Cr, and alpha samples
YUV* rw- CCIR 601 4:1:1 or 4:2:2
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