XPM

File Format
Name	XPM
Ontology	Electronic File Formats Graphics XPM
Extension(s)	.xpm, .pm
PRONOM	x-fmt/208
Released	1989

X PixMap (XPM) is an uncompressed raster image file format. It is essentially the color version of XBM.

An XPM file is plain text. Except for the little-used XPM version 2, it doubles as a fragment of C program code.

Specifications

• XPM Manual: The X PixMap Format, Version 3.4i

Software

• Farbfeld Utilities (format 1, 2 (except Lisp mode), and 3)
• ImageMagick (format 3 only)
• Netpbm: ppmtoxpm, xpmtoppm (format 1 and 3)
• http://www.x.org/releases/individual/lib/ → libXpm-3.5.11.tar.gz

Sample files

• http://www.fileformat.info/format/xpm/sample/index.htm
• http://stuff.mit.edu/afs/athena/contrib/graphics/images/icons/

External links

• XPM File Format Summary, from the Encyclopedia of Graphics File Formats
• The XPM Story
• Wikipedia article