Bitmap File Format Options

Photo>Graphics supports a large number of bitmap formats.

.JPG or .JPEG

Joint Photographic Experts Group images

.PCD

Kodak PhotoCD (requires OS/2 Multimedia support - default install with Warp)

.BMP

OS/2 or Windows Bitmap

.GIF

Graphics Interchange Format

.TIF

Tagged Image File Format

.TGA

Truevision Targa

.PCX

PC Paintbrush format

.PPM/PGM/PBM

Portable Bitmap Utilities format

.XBM

X-Windows Bitmap

.PNG

Portable Network Graphic

.EPS

Encapsulated PostScript (save only)

.MPT/MAC

MacPaint (load only)

.PS

Postscript (save only)

You will note that you cannot load PostScript .PS files or Encapsulated PostScript .EPS files. They can only be used to save the output.

When saving bitmaps you have the option of specifying any number of options depending on the specific bitmap format chosen.

The bitmap format is chosen by the file extension on the saved file name (ie: SAMP.BMP saves as BITMAP, SAMP.TIF saves as TIFF).

If you supply no options the defaults are used. If any option is provided that is not relevant to that file format, it is ignored.

Options are separated by : (colons) or ; (semi-colons) or , (commas). Options with 1 or 0 values may simply entered without a value to activate.

Examples:

call CwExportRendered 'c:\images\quux.jpg', 'progressive=1:quality=80'

call CwExportRendered 'c:\images\quux2.jpg', 'progressive'

call CwExportRendered 'c:\images\baz.gif, 'transparent:transparent color=(255,255,255)'

call CwExportRendered 'c:\images\bobo.tiff', ''

In the above:
progressive=1 and progressive
have the exact same meaning.

The options are:

Format	Option	Possible Values
GIF	Interlaced	1, 0 (1 = yes, 0 = no, No value = yes)
	Transparent	1, 0
	Transparent Color	Any color reference. ie:(255,255,255)
	Netscape palette	1, 0
	Color depth	"256 color" "16 color"
JPG	Progressive	1, 0
	Quality	1 ... 100
PCX	Color depth	"24-bit color" "256 color" "16 color" "B&W"
BMP	Color depth	"32-bit color" "24-bit color" "256 color" "16 color" "B&W"
	Compression	1, 0
	Version	"OS/2" "Windows 3.x" "Windows 95" "Windows NT"
PNG	Interlaced	1, 0
	Color depth	"24-bit color" "16-bit color" "256 color"
PSD	Compression	1, 0
	Color depth	"24-bit color" "256 color" "B&W"
TGA	Color depth	"32-bit color" "24-bit color" "16-bit color" "256 color"
TIF	Compression	"None" "PackBits" "LZW"
	Flavor	"Intel Encoding" "Machintosh Encoding"
	Color depth	"24-bit color" "256 color" "B&W"
PPM/PBM/PGM	Encoding	"binary" "ascii"
EPS	Preview	1 = yes, 0 = no

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