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- This program extracts the characters from a big image to a GF font file.
- Information about the image is given in an ``image font information''
- (IFI) file; that file format is described in the documentation.
-
- Currently the program can read the IMG files output by the Scan7650
- software, which works with the fancy Xerox 9750 scanner. (I think IMG
- output is used by other GEM applications as well.) These images are
- used by the Interleaf desktop publishing program. The image format
- isn't proprietary, though -- it doesn't have any novel features. The
- message below describes the format.
-
- It can also read PBM files.
-
-
- Date: Thu, 5 Jul 90 11:22:55 EDT
- From: rgw@hq.ileaf.com (Bob Watkins x5545)
- To: karl@cs.umb.edu
-
- The image file consists of an OPSHEADER followed by an IMGHEADER, followed
- by raster data. The version field of the OPSHEADER determines which of the
- IMGHEADER structures to use. Most likely this will be 2, but there is a
- chance that it might be 1 -- it depends on how recently the software for
- that scanner was written.
-
- When reading the headers structures, it is a good idea to read them a field
- at a time rather than all at once, since not all compilers use the same
- structure padding conventions.
-
- The resolution numbers are in pixels/inch. Their primary purpose is to
- allow TPS to scale the image to the correct physical dimensions when it is
- pasted into the document. Other than that, they aren't that useful.
-
- The flags field should be zero -- there is a stupid marketing reason why it
- is there at all, but I won't go into that.
-
- The w and h fields are the width and height of the image in pixels; the d
- field is the depth in bits/pixel. The depth is either 1 or 8, depending on
- whether the image is a lineart image or a contone image.
-
- The format field specifies the encoding of the raster data. A format of 0
- means that the data is uncompressed. The data itself is stored in scanline-
- major order. In the case of lineart image, 8 pixels are packed into each
- byte, with most-to-least significant order within the byte representing left-
- to-right order in the image. A 0 bit corresponds to a black pixel, and a 1
- bit corresponds to a white pixel. If necessary, the scanlines are padded out
- to the next 16-bit boundary.
-