| File Type |
Paintbrush Bitmap Image File |
| File Format |
File |
| Common? |
No |
| File Description |
Raster image format developed by ZSoft; became one of the original bitmap image formats for the DOS/Windows platform; supports 24-bit color images, 8-bit grayscale and indexed color images, and 1-bit black and white images; compressed using RLE encoding.
The PCX file format has mostly been replaced by newer image formats, but is still used by some fax and scanning applications; multi-page PCX fax documents use the .DCX extension. |
| Program(s) that open pcx files |
Mac: Adobe Photoshop; Nuance OmniPage Pro X
Windows: ZSoft PC Paintbrush; Microsoft Paint (early versions only); Microsoft Windows Picture and Fax Viewer; Adobe Photoshop; Corel Paint Shop Pro; ACDSee Photo Manager; Nuance OmniPage Professional; NCH Software Pixillion Image Converter; NCH Software PhotoPad |
