Working With Images
This section discusses the functions that allow your application to compress and decompress single-frame images stored as pixel maps (of data typePixMap). See "Working With Sequences," which begins on page 3-110, for information on compressing and decompressing sequences of images. See "Working With Pictures and PICT Files," which begins on page 3-83, for information on compressing and manipulating single-frame images stored as pictures or picture files (in PICT format).The Image Compression Manager provides two sets of functions for compressing and decompressing images. If you do not need to assert a lot of control over the compression operation, you can use the
CompressImageandDecompressImagefunctions to work with compressed images. If you need more control over the compression parameters, you can use theFCompressImageandFDecompressImagefunctions.You can convert a compressed image from one compression format to another by calling the
ConvertImagefunction.You can alter the spatial characteristics of a compressed image by calling the
TrimImagefunction.You can work with an image's color table with the
SetImageDescriptionCTableandGetImageDescriptionCTablefunctions.
Subtopics
- CompressImage
- FCompressImage
- DecompressImage
- FDecompressImage
- ConvertImage
- TrimImage
- SetImageDescriptionCTable
- GetImageDescriptionCTable