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{{Short description|Image file format}} {{Infobox file format | name = X PixMap | screenshot = Screenshot-xterm-linux.xpm-GVIM.png | screenshot_size = 240px | caption = Some [[text editors]], for example [[gvim]], can display xpm images in graphical form. | extension = <code>.xpm</code> | mime = image/x-xpixmap<ref name="iana">.xpm [[MIME]] type not [https://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/media-types.xhtml#image registered] at [[Internet Assigned Numbers Authority|IANA]]</ref> | owner = BULL Research | creatorcode = | genre = [[Image file formats]] | containerfor = | containedby = | extendedfrom = [[X BitMap|XBM]] | extendedto = | open = yes }} '''X PixMap''' ('''XPM''') is an [[Image file formats|image file format]] used by the [[X Window System]], created in 1989 by Daniel Dardailler and Colas Nahaboo working at [[Groupe Bull|Bull Research Center]] at [[Sophia Antipolis]], France, and later enhanced by Arnaud Le Hors.<ref name="xpm1">{{cite book|last1= Le Hors |first1= Arnaud |title= XPM Manual: The X PixMap Format |url= http://www.xfree86.org/current/xpm.pdf|access-date= 2014-01-01 |date= 1996-02-01 |publisher= [[Groupe Bull]] |pages=7β8 |ref= CITEREFLeHors1996 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.w3.org/People/danield/xpm_story.html |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/19970607024723/http://www.w3.org/People/danield/xpm_story.html |url-status= dead |archive-date= 1997-06-07 |title= The XPM Story |author=Daniel Dardailler|others= Colas Nahaboo and Arnaud Le Hors |date=1996-07-15|access-date=2014-01-01 }}</ref> It is intended primarily for creating [[computer icon|icon]] [[pixmap]]s, and supports [[Transparency (graphic)#Transparent pixels|transparent pixels]]. Derived from the earlier [[X BitMap|XBM]] syntax, it is a [[plain text]] file in the XPM2 format or of a [[C (programming language)|C programming language]] syntax, which can be included in a C program file.<ref name="xpm1" />
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