PackBits

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Name PackBits
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PackBits (or Apple Macintosh PackBits, or Macintosh RLE), is a simple lossless image compression scheme that uses run-length encoding.

It is byte-oriented (as opposed to pixel-oriented), so depending on how the image data is organized, it may be ineffective for images that use more than one byte per pixel.

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PackBits compression is used by MacPaint files, and some TIFF files.

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