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Format

Portable Pixel Map - ASCII

Summary

Name
Portable Pixel Map - ASCII
Identifiers
  • MIME: image/x-portable-pixmap
  • PUID: x-fmt/178
Format type
Image (Raster)
Description
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File extensions
ppm
Source
Digital Preservation Department / The National Archives

Internal signatures

Portable Pixel Map - ASCII

Note
“P3” followed by a whitespace char (blank, TAB, CR, LF).

Byte sequences

Min Frag Length
Absolute from BOF
Offset
0
Max offset
None
Byte Sequence
5033(20|09|0D0A|0A)
Endianness
None
Min Frag Length
Absolute from EOF
Offset
0
Max offset
4
Byte Sequence
(30|31|32|33|34|35|36|37|38|39|20|0A|0D)(30|31|32|33|34|35|36|37|38|39|20|0A|0D)(30|31|32|33|34|35|36|37|38|39|20|0A|0D)(30|31|32|33|34|35|36|37|38|39|20|0A|0D)(30|31|32|33|34|35|36|37|38|39|20|0A|0D)(30|31|32|33|34|35|36|37|38|39|20|0A|0D)(30|31|32|33|34|35|36|37|38|39|20|0A|0D)(30|31|32|33|34|35|36|37|38|39|20|0A|0D)(30|31|32|33|34|35|36|37|38|39|20|0A|0D)(30|31|32|33|34|35|36|37|38|39|20|0A|0D)20
Endianness
None

Changelog

  • Added in V58

    Release date
    21 March 2012

    Portable Pixel Map - ASCII: Signature submitted by Georgia Tech Research Institute, USA.