ImageMagick Image Formats

The following image formats are recognized by ImageMagick:
* AVS - AVS X image file.
* BMP - Microsoft Windows bitmap image file.
* CMYK - Raw cyan, magenta, yellow, and black bytes.
* EPS - Adobe Encapsulated PostScript file.
* EPSF - Adobe Encapsulated PostScript file.
* EPSI - Adobe Encapsulated PostScript Interchange format.
* FAX - Group 3.
* FITS - Flexible Image Transport System.
* GIF - Compuserve Graphics image file.
* GIF87 - Compuserve Graphics image file (version 87a).
* GRAY - Raw gray bytes.
* HDF - Hierarchical Data Format.
* HISTOGRAM
* JPEG - Joint Photographic Experts Group file interchange format.
* MAP - colormap intensities and indices.
* MATTE - Raw matte bytes.
* MIFF - Magick image file format.
* MTV -
* NULL - NULL image.
* PCD - Photo CD.
* PCX - ZSoft IBM PC Paintbrush file.
* PDF - Portable Document Format.
* PICT - Apple Macintosh QuickDraw/PICT file.
* PNG - Portable Network Graphics.
* PNM - Portable bitmap.
* PS - Adobe PostScript file.
* PS2 - Adobe Level II PostScript file.
* RAD - Radiance image file.
* RGB - Raw red, green, and blue bytes.
* RGBA - Raw red, green, blue, and matte bytes.
* RLE - Utah Run length encoded image file; read only.
* SGI - Irix RGB image file.
* SUN - SUN Rasterfile.
* TEXT - raw text file; read only.
* TGA - Truevision Targa image file.
* TIFF - Tagged Image File Format.
* TILE - tile image with a texture.
* VICAR - read only.
* VID - Visual Image Directory.
* VIFF - Khoros Visualization image file.
* X - select image from X server screen.
* XC - constant image of X server color.
* XBM - X11 bitmap file.
* XPM - X11 pixmap file.
* XWD - X Window System window dump image file.
* YUV - CCIR 601 1:1:1 file.
* YUV3 - CCIR 601 2:1:1 files.
Support for some of these formats require additional programs or libraries. README tells where to find this software.

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