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## Command line image format options

Tachyon optionally supports several image file formats for output. The output format is specified by the `-format formatname` command line parameter. Several of these formats are only available if Tachyon has been compiled with optional features enabled.

- `TARGA`: uncompressed 24-bit Targa file
- `BMP`: uncompressed 24-bit Windows bitmap
- `PPM`: uncompressed 24-bit NetPBM portable pixmap (PPM) file
- `RGB`: uncompressed 24-bit Silicon Graphics RGB file
- `JPEG`: compressed 24-bit JPEG file
- `PNG`: uncompressed 24-bit PNG file