XPM

File Format
Name	XPM
Ontology	Electronic File Formats Graphics XPM
Extension(s)	.xpm, .pm
MIME Type(s)	image/x-xpixmap
PRONOM	x-fmt/208
Wikidata ID	Q1887604
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)
• FFmpeg
• ImageMagick (format 3 only)
• Netpbm: ppmtoxpm, xpmtoppm (format 1 and 3)
• http://www.x.org/releases/individual/lib/ → libXpm-3.5.11.tar.gz
• abydos
• GIMP
• IrfanView
• LibreOffice Draw
• XnView

Sample files

• http://www.fileformat.info/format/xpm/sample/index.htm
• http://stuff.mit.edu/afs/athena/contrib/graphics/images/icons/
• https://telparia.com/fileFormatSamples/image/xpm/
• https://www.qemu.org/ - qemu-7.0.0-rc4.tar.xz → logo.xpm
• http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/thunderbird/ - thunderbird-60.5.3.source.tar.xz → mozicon16.xpm mozicon50.xpm
• https://archive.apache.org/dist/openoffice/ - apache-openoffice-4.1.7-46059c9192-src.zip → aoo-4.1.7/main/padmin/source/ psetupl.xpm
• http://raspbian.raspberrypi.org/ - icewm-themes_1.2.26.orig.tar.gz → icewm-themes-1.2.26/gnomeish/ dframeIB.xpm

External links

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