MSP (Microsoft Paint)

Latest revision as of 04:05, 28 December 2023

This article is about the Windows 1 and 2 graphics format. For the Windows Installer file format of the same name, see Windows Installer.

MSP (Microsoft Paint, or Windows Paint) is the native file format of the Paint application included with Microsoft Windows versions 1 and 2. It is a bi-level raster image format.

[edit] Format

Files have a 32-byte header.

[edit] Identification

Version 1 files begin with signature bytes 44 61 6E 4D.

Version 2 files begin with signature bytes 4C 69 6E 53.

[edit] Software

• Microsoft Paint (Windows 3.1x version can convert to a .bmp file.)
• Konvertor
• XnView (MSP version 2 only?)^{[citation needed]}
• Deark
• RECOIL

[edit] Sample files

• http://www.fileformat.info/format/mspaint/sample/index.htm
• MSP1.ZIP
• dexvert samples — image/msp

[edit] Links

• Microsoft Paint File Format Summary, from the Encyclopedia of Graphics File Formats