Editing X PixMap (section)

== Comparison with other formats ==
[[File:Blarg.xbm.png|right|thumb|Blarg file opened in program window]]

The following code displays the same blarg file in the [[X BitMap|XBM]], XPM and [[Netpbm format|PBM]] formats.

XBM version:

<syntaxhighlight lang="C">
#define test_width 16
#define test_height 7
static char test_bits[] = {
0x13, 0x00, 0x15, 0x00, 0x93, 0xcd, 0x55, 0xa5, 0x93, 0xc5, 0x00, 0x80,
0x00, 0x60 };
</syntaxhighlight>

[[File:Blarg.xpm.png|right|thumb|Blarg.xpm (XPM2) rendered by XnView]]
XPM2 version:

<pre>
! XPM2
16 7 2 1
* c #000000
. c #ffffff
**..*...........
*.*.*...........
**..*..**.**..**
*.*.*.*.*.*..*.*
**..*..**.*...**
...............*
.............**.
</pre>

XPM3 version:

<syntaxhighlight lang="C">
/* XPM */
static char * blarg_xpm[] = {
"16 7 2 1",
"* c #000000",
". c #ffffff",
"**..*...........",
"*.*.*...........",
"**..*..**.**..**",
"*.*.*.*.*.*..*.*",
"**..*..**.*...**",
"...............*",
".............**."
};
</syntaxhighlight>

PBM file:
<pre>
P1
16 7
1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 1
1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 1
1 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 1
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0
</pre>