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Hello there,
Here is my case : I have made few patterns with gimp as .pat files, and I would like other applications to use them. Unfortunately the .pat files seem to be gimp-native formats and I can't use them as images.

One solution is to stop using the .pat format and to save my patterns as png. But would there be a loss of information ? I would like to know what information does the .pat format contains except the image itself.

Thanks !

From what I can dig up, the pattern file contains very little apart from the image data


Probably a .pat file originally tiled a bit faster than a png/jpeg since it looks like it is not compressed.

Patterns tend to large these days, I would just use .png or .jpg

You can open a .pat pattern as an image by right clicking on a pattern icon in the patterns dock.

(07-02-2018, 05:43 PM)jacques_duflos Wrote: [ -> ]Hello there,
Here is my case : I have made few patterns with gimp as .pat files, and I would like other applications to use them. Unfortunately the .pat files seem to be gimp-native formats and I can't use them as images.

One solution is to stop using the .pat format and to save my patterns as png. But would there be a loss of information ? I would like to know what information does the .pat format contains except the image itself.

Thanks !

Technically, only a pattern name that can be different from the file name. Useful in the 8.3 days, in a previous millenium.

Ok, thanks a lot, then I think I'll save all my patterns as png or jpeg and stop using .pat.