Convert PPM
Netpbm colour pixmap. Useful for pipelines and old UNIX tools. Every pair below runs in the browser. The file is not uploaded. Video and audio use FFmpeg in WebAssembly, fetched from this origin once, about 30 MB, then cached by the service worker. The clip itself is not part of that download.
This hub is the index, not the workbench. Each conversion is its own URL so a search for “PPM to something” can land on a page that only does that job. The file picker on those pages expects PPM when you are leaving this format, or produces PPM when you are arriving. A generic dropdown still exists under Video convert and Audio convert if you would rather pick the destination after you drop the file.
You can check the same way on every pair: open the network panel, drop a PPM file, convert it. You should see this origin. You shouldn't see a POST of the file. Google Analytics, if it's on, is page views, not your PPM bytes. If a tool needs a server, it isn't on this site.
This site can read it. This site can write it. Engine: ffmpeg.
Convert from PPM
- PPM to JPGThe usual photographic JPEG. No transparency.
- PPM to PNGLossless stills, including transparency.
- PPM to WebPA smaller web still that can keep transparency.
- PPM to AVIFOften smaller than WebP at the same viewing size.
- PPM to BMPUncompressed bitmap. Huge, simple, still used in scanning.
- PPM to ICOWindows icon file. Written here as a single PNG-in-ICO.
- PPM to TIFFCommon in scanning and print. Decoded and written in this tab.
- PPM to TGATarga stills. Handled through the same local FFmpeg build as video.
- PPM to PGMNetpbm greyscale. Same local encoder path as PPM.
- PPM to PBMNetpbm 1-bit bitmap.
Convert to PPM
- JPG to PPMThe usual photographic JPEG. No transparency.
- PNG to PPMLossless stills, including transparency.
- WebP to PPMA smaller web still that can keep transparency.
- AVIF to PPMOften smaller than WebP at the same viewing size.
- HEIC to PPMApple's default still format on iPhone.
- BMP to PPMUncompressed bitmap. Huge, simple, still used in scanning.
- ICO to PPMWindows icon file. Written here as a single PNG-in-ICO.
- GIF to PPMThe first frame of a GIF. Animation is not written back.
- SVG to PPMVector markup, rasterized to pixels. I do not trace photos into SVG.
- TIFF to PPMCommon in scanning and print. Decoded and written in this tab.
- TGA to PPMTarga stills. Handled through the same local FFmpeg build as video.
- PGM to PPMNetpbm greyscale. Same local encoder path as PPM.
- PBM to PPMNetpbm 1-bit bitmap.
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