XPM (which stands for X Window System PixMaps) is a derivation of the [XBM] format designed to 
represent color images in a simple to process format.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_PixMap for information on
the format.

See [Img] for a Tk extension which can assist in displaying images in xpm format, or
[XPM to photo image] or [Tk_Xpm] for specialized extensions/procs to handle [XPM]s.

[DKF]: One of the key features of the XPM format (and [XBM] too) is that it is a valid C declaration, which means that embedding them into a C program is just a matter of #include...

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