imformats

Manage supported image formats.

Syntax

• imformats ()
• formats = imformats()
• format = imformats(ext)

Input argument

• ext - File format extension: character vector or string scalar.

Output argument

• formats - structure array: supported image formats.
• format - structure: supported image format.

Description

imformats returns the list of supported image formats.

formats = imformats() returns the list of supported image formats in a structure array.

format = imformats(ext) returns the structure of the image format corresponding to the extension ext.

Each element of the structure array contains the fields:

• ext: file format extension
• isa: function handle to test if the file format is supported
• info: function handle to get information about the file format
• description: file format description
• read: function handle to read the file format
• write: function handle to write the file format
• alpha: logical scalar indicating if the file format supports transparency
• multipage: logical scalar indicating if the file format supports multipage images

Example

imformats()

See also

imwrite, imread.

History

Author

Allan CORNET