PPM Converter

Convert PPM files online for free.

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How to Convert a PPM file?

Click the “Choose Files” button to select your PPM files.
Then select a target format and click the "Convert" button
Once the conversion finishes, click the "Download" button to save the file.

Convert Any File

FreeConvert supports 500+ file formats. Simply upload your PPM files and select a popular file format to convert them to. Easily share your PPM files (in a widely supported format) after conversion.

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We use both open-source and custom software to make sure our conversions are of the highest quality. In most cases, you can fine-tune conversion parameters using “Advanced Settings” (optional).

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Our PPM converter is free and works on any web browser. We guarantee file security and privacy. Files are protected with 256-bit SSL encryption and automatically deleted after 8 hours.

What is a PPM (Portable Pixmap Format) file?

Portable Pixmap Format (PPM) is an uncompressed, raster-based colour image format from the Netpbm family. A PPM file stores a plain header followed by RGB values for every pixel, either as readable ASCII text or as binary data. Because nothing is compressed or discarded, PPM is deliberately simple for programs to read and write, at the cost of very large file sizes.

How to open a PPM file?

Most operating systems do not open PPM by default. XnView MP and GIMP both read it, and on Windows IrfanView opens PPM as well.

PPM is mainly used as an intermediate format in image-processing pipelines rather than for storage or sharing. Because of its size, convert PPM to a compressed format before publishing it online — try our PPM to JPG converter. Related Netpbm types are PBM (bitmap), PGM (greyscale), and PNM (any of the three).

Developed by: Jef Poskanzer / Netpbm Project

Initial Release: 1988

Convert PPM to other file types

Freeconvert.me can convert your PPM files to these other formats:

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