NIFF (xloadimage)

File Format
Name	NIFF (xloadimage)
Ontology	Electronic File Formats Graphics NIFF (xloadimage) ; ; ;
Extension(s)	.niff
Released	≤1991

NIFF (Native Image File Format) is the native image format of the xloadimage image viewer and toolkit for X-Windows.

Identification

Files begin with the ASCII signature "NIFF".

To convert a NIFF image:

xloadimage example.niff -dump pbm example.pnm

Note that xloadimage may refuse to run if an X display is not available.