PCX Dosyaları Hakkında

PCX (PCX Image · Görsel Formatı)

Çıkış yılı 1985 Geliştirici: ZSoft Corporation

PCX Image (.pcx), KaijuConverter tarafından profesyonel veri alışverişi, arşivleme ve çapraz platform dönüştürme için desteklenen standart bir dosya formatıdır.

Aile

Raster & Vector Images

Uzantı

.pcx

MIME Türü

image/x-pcx

Kullanım şekli

Girdi Çıktı

Hikayesi

PCX NASIL
ORTAYA ÇIKTI.

PCX was the native format of PC Paintbrush, shipped by ZSoft Corporation in 1985 as one of the first pixel-art editors for the IBM PC. For much of the late 1980s and early 1990s PCX was the most common image format in the DOS world — clip-art libraries, screenshots, scanner exports, and every "paint by computer" kid’s workflow all traded PCX.

Then BMP shipped with Windows 1.0, GIF arrived from CompuServe, JPEG and PNG eventually dominated, and PCX faded to a footnote. The format survives in retrocomputing archives, legacy CAD, and some fax/scanning pipelines that never replaced their 1990s software. A .pcx file is simple RLE-compressed pixels with a 128-byte header — quirky but charming. The format’s historical importance is outsized: without PCX, Windows Paint might have launched with a worse default.

MERAK EDİLENLER VE
İLGİNÇ BİLGİLER.

PC Paintbrush's PCX was effectively "the image format of DOS" from 1985 through ~1995 — anything drawn on a PC before Windows likely passed through PCX.

Windows Paint's clipboard briefly interoperated via PCX in early versions before switching to BMP.

PCX headers are exactly 128 bytes — a memorable fixed size that made parsers trivial.

ZSoft was acquired by SoftKey (later The Learning Company) in 1994, ending PC Paintbrush's evolution.

The RLE compression in PCX works on horizontal runs of identical bytes — efficient for cartoons, less so for photos.

GÜÇLÜ YÖNLER VE
SINIRLAMALAR.

Güçlü Yönler

Simple format — easy to parse in any language.
RLE compression keeps flat-color images compact.
Historic archive format for 1985-1995 PC art.
Stable since 1985 with no breaking changes.

Sınırlamalar

Legacy — no new content created as PCX in 2026.
Inefficient for photographs (RLE is wrong algorithm).
Limited to 24-bit color depth.
Web browsers do not display PCX.

Tipik Boyutlar ve Ağırlıklar

Simple clipart

2-40 KB

VGA-era screenshot (320×200)

30-80 KB

Scanned page

200 KB - 2 MB

Teknik Özellikler

MIME type: image/x-pcx
Extension: .pcx
Header: 128 bytes fixed
Compression: Run-Length Encoding (RLE)
Creator: ZSoft Corporation (1985)

ŞUNDAN DÖNÜŞTÜR:
PCX

pcx jpg pcx png pcx webp pcx avif pcx gif pcx bmp pcx tiff pcx ico pcx svg pcx pdf

ŞUNA DÖNÜŞTÜR:
PCX

jpg pcx png pcx webp pcx gif pcx bmp pcx tiff pcx avif pcx psd pcx ico pcx svg pcx

Yaygın Kullanım Senaryoları

Legacy DOS/Windows graphics, retro computing, vintage game assets