As was mentioned above, PhoA program works with photo album files having .phoa extension
- such file holds:
photo album description text and settings;
picture list along with their descriptions;
folders-groups hierarchy, each holding a set of links to photo album images;
views' structures (PhoA version 1.0.1+).
.phoa files cannot be viewed directly and are opened only in PhoA. But starting with
PhoA version 1.1.1a that is possible to create your own tools due to open PhoA file format
specifications. Refer to program's home site for further
information.
Current version recognises the following formats as source image files (click a plus-button to expand
the details):
Standard Windows and OS/2 bitmap images
(*.bmp, *.rle, *.dib)
byte order: little endian
sample sizes: 1, 4, 8 bits per sample
color spaces: indexed, RGB(A)
compression formats: uncompressed, RLE
JPEG images (*.jpg; *.jpeg;
*.jpe)
byte orders: little endian, big endian
sample sizes: 8 bits per sample
color spaces: grayscale, RGB
TIFF images (*.tif; *.tiff; *.dng)
byte orders: little endian, big endian
sample sizes: 1, 2, 4, 8, 16 bits per sample
color spaces: indexed, grayscale, RGB(A), CMYK, L*a*b*
compression formats: uncompressed, packed bits, LZW, CCITT T.4 (raw and modified fax group 3, possibly word
aligned), ThunderScan, Deflate, new style JPEG
GFI fax images (*.fax)
sample size: 1 bits per sample
color space: indexed
compression format: CCITT T.4 (raw and modified fax group 3)
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Supported file formats
Standard Windows and OS/2 bitmap images
(*.bmp, *.rle, *.dib)