Portable Pix Map, an image format of the PNM family, for which in the Netpbm project [http://sourceforge.net/projects/netpbm/] a large numbers of converters and manipulators are available. Every pixel is represented by three bytes for red, green, and blue channel. No compression, no transparency, as far as [RS] is aware. Tk images can be read and written in PPM format using [photo]. See also [PGM]. ---- [Category Graphics]