PPM-FI Portable Pixelmap (ASCII)¶
Extensions: .ppm
A PNM format based on the Freeimage library.
This format supports single bit (PBM), grayscale (PGM) and RGB (PPM) images, even with ASCII or binary coding.
The freeimage plugin requires a freeimage binary. If this binary not available on the system, it can be downloaded manually from <https://github.com/imageio/imageio-binaries> by either
- the command line script
imageio_download_bin freeimage
- the Python method
imageio.plugins.freeimage.download()
Parameters for saving¶
- use_ascii : bool
- Save with ASCII coding. Default True.