Editing Computer Graphics Metafile (section)

{{short description|Image file format family}}
{{Infobox file format
| name                   = Computer Graphics Metafile
| icon                   = 
| logo                   = 
| screenshot             = 
| caption                = 
| extension              = {{mono|.cgm}}
| mime                   = {{mono|image/cgm}}<ref>[https://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/image/ IANA Image Media Types]</ref>
| type code              = 
| uniform type           = 
| magic                  = 
| owner                  = [[American National Standards Institute|ANSI]], [[International Organization for Standardization|ISO]]/[[International Electrotechnical Commission|IEC]], [[World Wide Web Consortium|W3C]]
| released               = {{Start date and age|1986}}<br />(ANSI X3 122-1986)
| latest release version = 
| latest release date    = 
| genre                  = [[vector graphics|Vector image format]]
| container for          = 
| contained by           = 
| extended from          = [[Graphical Kernel System]]
| extended to            = 
| standard               = [[International Organization for Standardization|ISO]]/[[International Electrotechnical Commission|IEC]] 8632
| url                    = {{URL|standards.iso.org/ittf/PubliclyAvailableStandards/index.html|ISO/IEC 8632}}
}}
'''Computer Graphics Metafile''' ('''CGM''') is a [[free file format|free]] and [[open standard|open]] [[international standard]] file format for 2D [[vector graphics]], [[raster graphics]], and [[Character (computing)|text]], and is defined by '''[[International Organization for Standardization|ISO]]/[[International Electrotechnical Commission|IEC]] 8632'''.<ref>[http://standards.iso.org/ittf/PubliclyAvailableStandards/index.html ISO/IEC 8632]</ref>