File Formats Supported in IDL
Image File Formats
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Format
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Description
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BMP
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Windows Bitmap format
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GIF
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Graphics Interchange Format
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JPEG
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Joint Photographic Experts Group format
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JPEG 2000
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JPEG 2000 format
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MPEG 1 & 2
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Moving Picture Experts Group format
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NRIF
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NCAR Raster Interchange Format
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PICT
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Macintosh version 2 PICT files (bitmap only)
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PNG
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Portable Network Graphics format
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PGM
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Portable Gray Map Format
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PPM
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Portable Pixmap Format
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SRF
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Sun Raster File Format
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TIFF
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8-bit or 24-bit Tagged Image File format
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X11 Bitmap
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X11 Bitmap format used for reading bitmaps for IDL widget button labels
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XWD
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Windows Dump Format
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Scientific Data Formats
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Format
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Description
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CDF
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Common Data Format v 3.4.1
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DICOM
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Digital Imaging and COmmunications in Medicine
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GeoTIFF
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TIFF file with tags containing geographic data
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GRIB/GRIB2
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GRIddedBinary Format
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HDF
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Hierarchical Data Format version 4.2 r8
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HDF5
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Hierarchical Data Format version 5-1.8.4
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HDF-EOS
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Hierarchical Data Format-Earth Observing System version 2.18
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KML/KMZ
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Google Earth™ mapping service format and compressed format
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MrSID
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Multi-resolution Seamless Image Database format
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NetCDF
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Network Common Data Format, all formats: classic, 64-bit offset, and NetCDF4
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OPeNDAP
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OPeNDAP via NetCDF
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Video Formats
| Format |
Description |
| AVI |
Audio Video Interleave |
| FLV |
Adobe Flash Video |
| GIF |
Animated GIF |
| MJPEG2000 |
Motion JPEG2000 format |
| MPEG 1 & 2 |
Moving Picture Experts Group format |
| MP4 |
MPEG-4 |
| SWF |
Adobe Flash |
| WEBM |
Google WebM |
Other Data Formats
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Format
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Description
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ASCII
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American Standard Code for Information Interchange
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BIL, BIP, BSQ
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ArcGIS Raster
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Binary
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Digital data encoded as a sequence of bits
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CSV
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Comma-Separated Value
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DXF
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Drawing eXchange Format
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EPS
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Encapsulated PostScript
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ESRI Shapefile
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Stores non-topological geometry and attribute information
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IMG
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ENVI image
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PDF
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Portable Document Format
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PS
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PostScript
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SYLK
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Symbolic Link Format
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VRML
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Virtual Reality Modeling Language
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WAV
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Microsoft Waveform Format
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WAVE
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Wavefront Advanced Data Visualizer Format
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XDR
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eXternal Data Representation
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XML
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eXtensible Markup Language
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