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2      type="topic"
3      id="formats-view">
4
5  <info>
6    <link type="guide" xref="index"/>
7    <link type="seealso" xref="formats-save"/>
8    <desc>The image viewer can display pictures in a wide range of image formats, including PNG, JPEG, and TIFF.</desc>
9
10    <revision pkgversion="3.2" version="0.1" date="2011-09-05" status="final"/>
11  <credit type="author">
12    <name>Tiffany Antopolski</name>
13    <email>tiffany.antopolski@gmail.com</email>
14  </credit>
15  <license>
16   <p>Creative Commons Share Alike 3.0</p>
17  </license>
18  </info>
19
20 <title>Supported image formats</title>
21
22  <p>The image viewer is able to open pictures in the following formats:</p>
23  <list>
24   <item><p>ANI - Animation</p></item>
25   <item><p>BMP - Bitmap</p></item>
26   <item><p>GIF - Graphics Interchange Format</p></item>
27   <item><p>ICO - Windows Icon</p></item>
28   <item><p>JPEG/JPG - Joint Photographic Experts Group</p></item>
29   <item><p>PCX - PC Paintbrush</p></item>
30   <item><p>PNG - Portable Network Graphics</p></item>
31   <item><p>PNM - Portable Anymap from the PPM Toolkit</p></item>
32   <item><p>RAS - Sun Raster</p></item>
33   <item><p>SVG - Scalable Vector Graphics</p></item>
34   <item><p>TGA - Targa</p></item>
35   <item><p>TIFF - Tagged Image File Format</p></item>
36   <item><p>WBMP - Wireless Bitmap</p></item>
37   <item><p>XBM - X Bitmap</p></item>
38   <item><p>XPM - X Pixmap</p></item>
39  </list>
40  <p>
41   If you try to open a picture in an unsupported format, you will get a <gui>Could
42not load image 'image_name'.</gui> error.
43  </p>
44</page>
45