Palm bitmap

File Format
Name	Palm bitmap
Ontology	Electronic File Formats Graphics Palm bitmap

Palm bitmap Palm BitmapType (also called Palm Pilot Tbmp, Palm Pilot Bitmap, Palm pixmap, etc.) is a native bitmap format of Palm OS. It supports a variety of image types and compression schemes.

It can be found embedded in some Palm file formats, and apparently has also been used by itself as a file format. In a PRC file, resources named "Tbmp", "tAIB", and probably others, use this format.

Format details

There are about four different versions of the format. It begins with a header of at least 16 bytes.

Specifications

• Palm OS Reference - See "BitmapType" and "BitmapTypeV..." sections starting on p. 518
• Palm Native Image Format

Software

• Netpbm: pnmtopalm, palmtopnm
• ImageMagick (format named "PALM")