.XPM File

File extension xpm is used for X Pixmap (XPM), an ASCII-text-based image format used by the X Window System. It was created in 1989 by Daniel Dardailler and Colas Nahaboo working at the INRIA, France, and was later enhanced by Arnaud Le Hors.

It is intended primarily for creating icon pixmaps, and supports transparent color. It has a simple structure, deriving from the earlier XBM syntax. It can be created and manipulated using any text editor and can be included in a C language file.

Unix-X11 PixMap (256 color image for X Windows) (8bit text).

MIME types:
image/x-xpixmap
image/xpm
image/x-xpm

Files with xpm extension can be usually encountered as pictures in X Pixmap (XPM) format, an ASCII-text-based image format used by the X Window System.

How to open:

Use Nero PhotoSnap, IrfanView, OpenOffice.org Draw.

How to convert:

Use OpenOffice.org Draw to save xpm file to another format.