Supported Image Input File Formats

The following table lists the supported input file formats.

File Format Name	File Extension	Color Mode	Compression	Options
Adobe PDF	.pdf	RGB	None	Tiled See note below Geospatial PDF files are supported
Anatech LRD	.lrd	Monochrome	LRD RLE	—
Apple PICT	.pct, .pict	16 Colors 256 Colors Grayscale RGB	PackBits	HGR World File
ArcInfo ASCII Grid	.asc	Elevation: 8 bit – 16 bit – 32 bit float	none	An additional application is required to apply elevation, slope or aspect thematic styles on this raster format.
ArcInfo Binary Grid	.adf	Elevation: 8 bit – 16 bit – 32 bit float	none	An additional application is required to apply elevation, slope or aspect thematic styles on this raster format.
BSB Navigation Chart	.kap	256 Colors	None	None Read-Only
Bentley HMR	.hmr	256 Colors Grayscale	None LZW PackBits Deflate	—
Bentley HMR	.hmr	2 Colors	None CCITT FAX3 CCITT FAX4 RLE Deflate PackBits	—
C29	.c29	256 Colors Grayscale	RLE8	Tiled
C30	.c30	Grayscale	JPEG	See note below
C31	.c31	RGB	JPEG	See note below
CIT	.cit	Monochrome	CCITT FAX4	—
COT	.cot	256 Colors Grayscale	None	Tiled
CRL	.crl, .tpe, .lsr	256 Colors Grayscale	CRL8	Tiled
Cals Type 1 CCITT4	.cal, .cals, .ct1	Monochrome	CCITT FAX4	HGR WorldFile
Compuserve GIF	.gif	256 Colors 256 Colors with transparency	GIF LZW	—
Digital Terrain Elevation Data	.dt0, .dt1, .dt2	8 bit	None	None
ERMapper Compressed Wavelets	.ecw	Grayscale RGB	ERMapper Minimum Loss ERMapper Low Loss ERMapper Medimum Loss ERMapper High Loss	HGR WorldFile To add missing Coordinate Systems used by some ECW files, you must create a Geocoding file named PCSkeyProjDatum.dat, and save it in the ..\Default\Tables\Raster\ folder in MicroStation's program directory with the Coordinate System information, as in the following example: 2903,TMNEWMCF83,NAD83
ESRI BIL	.bil	Grayscale RGB	None	See note below
Erdas IMG	.img	256 Colors Grayscale RGB RGB Alpha	None	—
Erdas IMG	.img	RGB	None	Tile
FLI Animation format	.fli, .flc	256 Colors	FLI RLE8	See note below
GEOTIFF	.tif .tiff	RGB Alpha	None LZW Deflate	Tiled
GEOTIFF	.tif .tiff	RGB	None LZW PackBits Deflate JPEG Minimum Loss JPEG Low Loss JPEG Medium Loss JPEG High Loss	Tiled
GEOTIFF	.tif .tiff	Grayscale	None LZW PackBits Deflate JPEG Minimum Loss JPEG Low Loss JPEG Medium Loss JPEG High Loss	Tiled
GEOTIFF	.tif .tiff	16 Colors 256 Colors	None LZW PackBits Deflate	Tiled
GEOTIFF	.tif .tiff	Monochrome 2 Colors	None PackBits CCITT FAX3 CCITT FAX4 RLE	Tiled
Image RGB	.a	RGB	None	HGR WorldFile
Img	.p	256 Colors Grayscale	None	HGR WorldFile
Ingr. TIFF	.tif, .tiff	Same as Tag Image File Format	Same as Tag Image File Format	Same as Tag Image File Format
Internet TIFF	.iTIFF	RGB	None Deflate Flashpix JPEG Minimum Loss JPEG Low Loss JPEG Medium Loss JPEG High Loss	—
Internet TIFF	.iTIFF	Grayscale	None Deflate Flashpix JPEG Minimum Loss JPEG Low Loss JPEG Medium Loss JPEG High Loss	—
Internet TIFF	.iTIFF	256 Colors	None Deflate	—
Internet TIFF	.iTIFF	Monochrome 2 Colors	None CCITT FAX4 PackBits RLE1 Deflate	—
Internet TIFF	.iTIFF	RGB Alpha	None Flashpix Deflate	—
Internet TIFF64	.iTIFF64	RGB	None Deflate Flashpix JPEG Minimum Loss JPEG Low Loss JPEG Medium Loss JPEG High Loss	—
Internet TIFF64	.iTIFF64	Grayscale	None Deflate Flashpix JPEG Minimum Loss JPEG Low Loss JPEG Medium Loss JPEG High Loss	—
Internet TIFF64	.iTIFF64	256 Colors	None Deflate	—
Internet TIFF64	.iTIFF64	Monochrome 2 Colors	None CCITT FAX4 PackBits RLE1 Deflate	—
Internet TIFF64	.iTIFF64	RGB Alpha	None Flashpix Deflate	—
JPEG 2000	.jp2, .j2k, .jpm, .jpx, .j2c, .jpf	RGB Alpha RGB Grayscale	JPEG 2000 Lossless JPEG 2000 Minimum Loss JPEG 2000 Low Loss JPEG 2000 Medium Loss JPEG 2000 High Loss	HGR WorldFile
JPEG	.jpg, .jpeg, .jpe, .jfif	RGB Grayscale	JPEG Minimum Loss JPEG Low Loss JPEG Medium Loss JPEG High Loss	HGR WorldFile
Landsat TM FAST-L7A	.dat, .fst, .usgs	RGB Grayscale	None	—
MPF	.mpf	—	—	This is not a raster format in itself. MPF (stands for Multi-Page Format) is a collection of other bi-level Intergraph files concatenated into one single physical file.
MrSID	.sid	Grayscale RGB	Wavelet	See note below
Multi channel	.xch	RGB or RGBA	—	—
National Imagery Transmission Format	.ntf, .nsf	RGB 16 Colors 256 Colors	None	Tiled
PCX	.pcx	RGB 16 Colors 256 Colors Grayscale Monochrome	None	HGR WorldFile
Portable Network Graphics	.png	RGB 16 Colors 2 Colors 256 Colors Grayscale Monochrome RGB Alpha	Deflate	HGR WorldFile
RGB Compressed	.rgb	RGB	RLE8 Compression	Line Tiled
RGB	.rgb	RGB	None	Line Tiled
RLC	.rlc	1 Bit Color (black and white)	None	See note below
RLE	.rle	Monochrome	RLE1 Compression	Line Tiled
SPOT CAP	.fil	RGB Grayscale	None	See note below
Sun Raster	.rs, .ras	RGB 2 Colors 256 Colors Grayscale Monochrome	None	HGR WorldFile
TG4	.tg4	Monochrome	CCITT FAX4 Compression	Line Tiled
Tag Image File Format	.tif, .tiff	RGB Alpha	None LZW Deflate	HGR WorldFile Tiled
Tag Image File Format	.tif, .tiff	RGB	None LZW Deflate PackBits JPEG Minimum Loss JPEG Low Loss JPEG Medium Loss JPEG High Loss	HGR WorldFile Tiled
Tag Image File Format	.tif, .tiff	Grayscale	None LZW Deflate PackBits JPEG Minimum Loss JPEG Low Loss JPEG Medium Loss JPEG High Loss	HGR WorldFile Tiled
Tag Image File Format	.tif, .tiff	16 Colors 256 Colors	None LZW Deflate PackBits	HGR WorldFile Tiled
Tag Image File Format	.tif, .tif	Monochrome 2 Colors	None CCITT FAX3 CCITT FAX4 RLE PackBits	HGR WorldFile Tiled
Targa	.tga	RGB 256 Colors Grayscale RGB Alpha	None TGARLE	HGR WorldFile
USGS DEM ASCII	.dem	Elevation: 16 bit – 32 bit float	none	An additional application is required to apply elevation, slope or aspect thematic styles on this raster format.
USGS Digital Ortho Quad	.doq	RGB Grayscale	None	Line
USGS NDF File Format	.h1, .h2, .h3, .usgs	Grayscale RGB RGB Alpha	None	—
USGS SDTS DEM	.catd.ddf	Elevation: 16 bit – 32 bit float	none	An additional application is required to apply elevation, slope or aspect thematic styles on this raster format.
Web Map Server	.xwms	24-bit	None	Supported header formats : jpg, png,bmp, and gif.
Windows BMP	.bmp, .dib	256 Colors 16 Colors	None BMP RLE8	HGR WorldFile
Windows BMP	.bmp, .dib	RGB 2 Colors	None	HGR World File
Wireless BitMap	.wbmp	Monochrome	None	—

CAUTION: ECW and JPEG 2000 files do not support Rotation and Affinity transformations.