pixmap
nounEtymology Blend of pixel + map.
1
Computer graphics, Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences A grid of pixels; a bitmap, especially one having more than one bit (binary digit) assigned to each pixel, allowing for multiple shades or colors.
- PDF primarily encodes graphics and text as vectorized data, whereas DjVu primarily encodes them as pixmap images.2021, Alexander Thomasian, Storage Systems..., §2.13.7