Image Compression Manager

Overview

This chapter describes the Image Compression Manager. The Image Compression Manager provides image-compression and image-decompression services to applications and other managers. If you are developing an application that works with images, you should read this chapter to familiarize yourself with the features of the Image Compression Manager. If you want to develop a compressor or decompressor for use on the Macintosh computer, see Inside Macintosh: QuickTime Components for information about the software interfaces that your component must support in order to work with the Image Compression Manager.

Image compression benefits you by decreasing the amount of storage required for image data, decreasing the time required to exchange image data across networks, and decreasing the time required to read data from disks and CD-ROM volumes.