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Format

Portable Any Map

Summary

Name
Portable Any Map
Identifiers
PUID: fmt/405
Description
This is an outline record only, and requires further details, research or authentication to provide information that will enable users to further understand the format and to assess digital preservation risks associated with it if appropriate. If you are able to help by supplying any additional information concerning this entry, please return to the main PRONOM page and select ‘Add an Entry’.
File extensions
pam
Submitted by
Georgia Tech Research Institute / Georgia Tech Research Institute

Internal signatures

Portable Any Map

Description
“P7” followed by (WIDTH, HEIGHT, DEPTH, and MAXVAL may be in any order so we just search for one, WIDTH) + ENDHDR
Provenance
PAM. User Manual for Netpbm http://netpbm.sourceforge.net/doc/pam.html

Byte sequences

Min Frag Length
Absolute from BOF
Offset
0
Max offset
None
Byte Sequence
5037*5749445448{3-256}454E44484452
Endianness
Big-endian

Changelog

  • V65

    Release date
    25 October 2012
    • Updated

      StarOffice Impress 5.2: MIME-Type information added.

  • V58

    Release date
    21 March 2012
    • Added format

      Portable Any Map: Submission from Georgia Tech Research Institute, USA. Outline entry added.

    • Added signature

      Portable Any Map: Signature submitted by Georgia Tech Research Institute, USA.