Picture Exchange, aka, PC Paintbrush

PCX, standing for PiCture eXchange, was the native file format for PC Paintbrush and became one of the first widely accepted DOS imaging standards, although it has since been succeeded by more sophisticated image formats.

Voir le tableau comparatif de référence Formats de fichiers images les plus utilisés

	PCX
Développé par	ZSoft Corporation
Année	1985 (version 1) 1991 (version 5)
Avantages	Image information retained Good quality image
Inconvénients	Large file format PC compatible only and older PCX versions only support 256 colours.
Fonctionnalités
Image vectorielle	Non
Image matricielle (Raster)	Oui
Format sans perte	Oui
Support animation	Non
Support de la transparence	Oui
Support des couches	Non
HDR	Non
Profondeur de couleur max. (bit depth)	8-bit
Supporte CMYK (pour l'imprimerie)	Non
Nombre de canaux max.	4
Utilisations communes	with Paintbrush software Mainly in the MS-DOS world. It is mainly an exchange and storage format
Navigateurs supportés (sans plugin)
Google Chrome	Non
Microsoft Edge	Non
Safari	Non
Firefox	Non
Opera	Non
Internet Explorer	Non
Autre
Extensions	.pcx
Wikipédia	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCX