Input file
PGM
- Full Name: Portable Graymap File Format
- Developer: N/A
Output file
- Full Name: Adobe Portable Document Format
- Developer: Adobe Systems
What is PGM file?
PGM (Portable Gray Map Image) is a bitmap image format created by Netpbm, and represented by the .pgm file extension. It is an image format primarily used for grayscale images, and involves various image elements, such as pixel dimensions, color and color depth. PGM retains all information from the original file, so it can be used to save high fidelity versions of an image. About PGM The PGM format is an 8-bit (modal) gray scale image created with Netbpm software. [ ⏩ ] PGM file extension
What is PDF file?
PDF (Portable Document Format) is a file format that can represent documents of any text, graphics, images and links in a manner independent of any application software, hardware, and operating system. It was created by Adobe Systems using its own PDL (Page Description Language). PDF utilizes modern encryption and compression algorithms in order to store the content of a document and provide multi-functional features such as textual annotations, text search, audio annotations etc. [ ⏩ ] PDF file extension
Software, that you can use to convert
How to convert the file from PGM to PDF?
To successfully convert the PGM file to PDF, you should install one of the applications from the list. After installing the software, open the program and select the file you want to convert (file-name.PGM). The next step is to select the target format from the list, in this case PDF (usually converters allow you to convert to several different formats, so check out their features - maybe one of the available formats will suit you more than PDF).
What is a file conversion?
A data conversion is normally an automated process to some extent. The effect of the operation of one program is automatically the input product of another application. If that does not happen we need to help the process a little bit and convert the file on our own, e.g. PGM to PDF. To obtain a matched structure of the data, it is necessary to use an appropriate converter.
Program for converting PGM files to PDF files is a kind of a "binary code translator" compensating for the differences in the code or translating it in such a way so that another application could use it. For us, as users, the visible change will be only another file extension. (After converting the file, it will be the extension PDF, while before this step we had the PGM file). For the programs, the difference is on a much higher level – either the application will be able to open a new PDF file, or not.