# PPM-FI Portable Pixelmap (ASCII)

Extensions: `.ppm`

This is the default format used for FreeImage. Each Freeimage format has the ‘flags’ keyword argument. See the Freeimage documentation for more information.

The freeimage plugin requires a freeimage binary. If this binary not available on the system, it can be downloaded manually from <https://github.com/imageio/imageio-binaries> by either

- the command line script `imageio_download_bin freeimage`
- the Python method `imageio.plugins.freeimage.download()`

## Parameters for reading

flags : int
  A freeimage-specific option. In most cases we provide explicit parameters for influencing image reading.

## Parameters for saving

flags : int
  A freeimage-specific option. In most cases we provide explicit parameters for influencing image saving.