MicroStation CONNECT Edition Help

Supported Output File Formats

The following table lists the supported output file formats.

File Format Name File Extension Color Mode Compression Options
Anatech LRD .lrd Monochrome LRD RLE Compression
Apple PICT .pct, .pict

256 Colors

Grayscale

RGB

PackBits Compression Sister File:

— None

— HGR

— World File

Bentley HMR .hmr 256 Colors

Grayscale

None

PackBits Compression

Deflate Compression (Extended)

Bentley HMR .hmr 2 Colors None

CCITT FAX4 Compression

PackBits Compression

C29 .c29, .t29 256 Colors

Grayscale

RLE8 Compression Tiled
CIT .cit Monochrome CCITT FAX4 Compression
COT .cot 256 Colors

Grayscale

None Tiled
CRL .crl, .tpe, .lsr 256 Colors

Grayscale

CRL RLE8 Compression Tiled
Cals Type 1 CCITT4 .cal, .cals, .ct1 Monochrome CCITT FAX4 Compression Sister File:

— None

— HGR

— World File

GIF .gif 256 Colors GIF LZW Compression Sister File:

— None

— HGR

— World File

ERMapper Compressed Wavelets .ecw RGB

Grayscale

ERMapper Minimum Loss

ERMapper Low Loss

ERMapper Medium Loss

ERMapper High Loss

Take GeoCS From:

— Current Model

— Input Raster

— Name Specified

Erdas IMG .img 256 Colors

Grayscale

RGB

RGB Alpha

None

Take GeoCS From:

— Current Model

— Input Raster

— Name Specified

GEOTIFF .tif .tiff RGB Alpha None

LZW Compression

Tiled

Take GeoCS From:

— Current Model

— Input Raster

— Name Specified

GEOTIFF .tif .tiff RGB

Grayscale

None

LZW Compression

JPEG Minimum Loss

JPEG Low Loss

JPEG Medium Loss

JPEG High Loss

PackBits Compression

Tiled

Take GeoCS From:

— Current Model

— Input Raster

— Name Specified

GEOTIFF .tif .tiff 16 Colors

256 Colors

None

LZW Compression

PackBits Compression

Tiled

Take GeoCS From:

— Current Model

— Input Raster

— Name Specified

GEOTIFF .tif .tiff Monochrome

2 Colors

None

CCITT FAX4 Compression

LZW Compression

PackBits Compression

Take GeoCS From:

— Current Model

— Input Raster

— Name Specified

Image RGB .a RGB None Sister File:

— None

— HGR

— World File

Img .p 256 Colors

Grayscale

None Sister File:

— None

— HGR

— World File

Internet TIFF .iTIFF RGB

Grayscale

None

LZW Compression

JPEG Minimum Loss

JPEG Low Loss

JPEG Medium Loss

JPEG High Loss

Deflate Compression (Extended)

Take GeoCS From:

— Current Model

— Input Raster

— Name Specified

Internet TIFF .iTIFF 256 Colors None

LZW Compression

Deflate Compression (Extended)

Take GeoCS From:

— Current Model

— Input Raster

— Name Specified

Internet TIFF .iTIFF Monochrome

2 Colors

None

CCITT FAX4 Compression

LZW Compression

PackBits Compression

Deflate Compression (Extended)

RLE1 Compression

Take GeoCS From:

— Current Model

— Input Raster

— Name Specified

Internet TIFF .iTIFF RGB Alpha None

LZW Compression

Deflate Compression (Extended)

Flashpix Compression

Take GeoCS From:

— Current Model

— Input Raster

— Name Specified

Internet TIFF64 .iTIFF64 RGB

Grayscale

None

LZW Compression

JPEG Minimum Loss

JPEG Low Loss

JPEG Medium Loss

JPEG High Loss

Deflate Compression (Extended)

Take GeoCS From:

— Current Model

— Input Raster

— Name Specified

Internet TIFF64 .iTIFF64 256 Colors None

LZW Compression

Deflate Compression (Extended)

Take GeoCS From:

— Current Model

— Input Raster

— Name Specified

Internet TIFF64 .iTIFF64 Monochrome

2 Colors

None

CCITT FAX4 Compression

LZW Compression

PackBits Compression

Deflate Compression (Extended)

RLE1 Compression

Take GeoCS From:

— Current Model

— Input Raster

— Name Specified

Internet TIFF64 .iTIFF64 RGB Alpha None

LZW Compression

Deflate Compression (Extended)

Flashpix Compression

Take GeoCS From:

— Current Model

— Input Raster

— Name Specified

JPEG 2000 .jpc, .jp2, .j2k, .jpm, .jpx, .j2c, .jpf RGB

Grayscale

JPEG 2000 Lossless

JPEG 2000 Minimum Loss

JPEG 2000 Low Loss

JPEG 2000 Medium Loss

JPEG 2000 High Loss

Take GeoCS From:

— Current Model

— Input Raster

— Name Specified

JPEG .jpg, .jpeg, .jpe, .jfif RGB

Grayscale

JPEG Minimum Loss

JPEG Low Loss

JPEG Medium Loss

JPEG High Loss

Sister File:

— None

— HGR

— World File

PCX .pcx RGB

16 Colors

256 Colors

Grayscale

Monochrome

None Sister File:

— None

— HGR

— World File

Portable Network Graphics .png RGB

16 Colors

256 Colors

Grayscale

Monochrome

RGB Alpha

2 Colors

Deflate Compression (Extended) Sister File:

— None

— HGR

— World File

RGB .rgb RGB None

RLE8 Compression

Tiled
RLE .rle Monochrome RLE1 Compression
Sun Raster .rs, .ras RGB

256 Colors

Grayscale

Monochrome

2 Colors

None Sister File:

— None

— HGR

— World File

TG4 .tg4 Monochrome CCITT FAX4 Compression
Tag Image File Format .tif, .tiff RGB

Grayscale

None

LZW Compression

JPEG Minimum Loss

JPEG Low Loss

JPEG Medium Loss

JPEG High Loss

PackBits Compression

Tiled

Sister File:

— None

— HGR

— World File

Tag Image File Format .tif, .tiff 16 Colors

256 Colors

None

LZW Compression

PackBits Compression

Tiled

Sister File:

— None

— HGR

— World File

Tag Image File Format .tif, .tiff RGB Alpha None

LZW Compression

Tiled

Sister File:

— None

— HGR

— World File

Tag Image File Format .tif, .tiff Monochrome

2 Colors

None

CCITT FAX4 Compression

LZW Compression

PackBits Compression

Sister File:

— None

— HGR

— World File

Targa .tga RGB

256 Colors

Grayscale

RGB Alpha

None

Targa RLE Compression

Sister File:

— None

— HGR

— World File

Windows BMP .bmp, .dib RGB

16 Colors

2 Colors

None Sister File:

— None

— HGR

— World File

Windows BMP .bmp, .dib 256 Colors None

BMP RLE8 Compression

Sister File:

— None

— HGR

— World File

Wireless BitMap .wbmp Monochrome None Sister File:

— None

— HGR

— World File

CAUTION: Note that ECW and JPEG 2000 files do not support Rotation and Affinity transformations. Also, for conversion to ECW and JPEG 2000, the limit to input file size is 10 GB.