How to convert your CIT file
- Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your CIT file.
- You'll see a preview.
- Click the "Convert file to..." button to save your file in the format you want.
Convert CIT to another file type
The converter easily converts your CIT file to various formats - free and online. No Photoshop or extra software needed.
- CIT to TIFF
- CIT to PDF
- CIT to JPG
- CIT to PNG
- CIT to GIF
- CIT to BMP
- CIT to TIF
- CIT to WEBP
- CIT to ICO
- CIT to CUR
- CIT to PSD
- CIT to PSB
Convert a file to CIT
The converter also works in reverse, so you can convert other Raster Image formats to CIT with high quality output.
- RAW to CIT
- PNG to CIT
- AI to CIT
- NEF to CIT
- PSB to CIT
- DNG to CIT
- SVG to CIT
- GIF to CIT
- EPS to CIT
- JPG to CIT
- ARW to CIT
- PDF to CIT
About CIT files
A .CIT file is primarily an Intergraph CCITT Raster Image, a legacy bitmap format developed by Intergraph (now part of Hexagon AB and widely used with Bentley MicroStation). These files are typically bitonal (black and white) scans of large-format engineering drawings, maps, or architectural blueprints compressed using CCITT Group 4 algorithms. While efficient for storing massive line-art scans, .CIT files are functionally obsolete for modern web and office workflows. They cannot be opened by standard image viewers like Microsoft Photos, web browsers, or mobile devices, requiring specialized CAD software or legacy viewing tools to interpret the proprietary header information. Users frequently face "invalid format" errors when trying to view these legacy archives. To make these drawings accessible for consultation, printing, or digital archiving, the best practice is to convert them to TIFF (to preserve the exact raster data and metadata), PDF (for easy sharing and multi-page documents), or PNG (for web viewing). Less frequently, a .CIT file may be a project configuration file for AVEVA Plant SCADA (formerly Citect SCADA), which is completely incompatible with image viewers.
Use Convert.Guru to open and convert your CIT file.
Users also converted WEBP, CTI, DGN, PDF, SIT, JPG, SPV, XML, CRDOWNLOAD, XBM, JIF, XPM and TIFF files.
The CIT Converter Story
The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our CIT converter.