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I wish the author provided more information about the strangeness of some of these formats and why they're now obsolete. PCX being one of the oddest because it'

I wish the author provided more information about the strangeness of some of these formats and why they're now obsolete. PCX being one of the oddest because it's ordered by planes. So the red, green, and blue components are split. What this list is missing is WMF/EMF which were basically direct serializations of Windows drawing primitives. > BMP files are usually not compressed and, therefore, are not well suited for transfer across the Internet When BMP files were compressed they'd typically be given the extension .RLE.

mnw21cam 5y ago
Most of the IFF images produced on the Amiga were also ordered by bitplanes, but that's bitplanes of an n-bit number for each pixel, referencing a colour lookup tables.
willis936 5y ago
EMF is still widely used. Word no longer imports .eps files as of about 4 years ago, so .emf is the next best option when generating plots in MATLAB or python. PDF embedding would be a dream, but that really doesn't work. svg is also reasonable, but word handles emf better. I use LaTeX for my personal stuff, but employers don't touch such things with 20 foot poles.