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- From: markc@hpcvxjme.cv.hp.com (Mark Cook)
- Newsgroups: comp.graphics,alt.book.reviews
- Subject: Re: Graphics book
- Message-ID: <1992Jul30.192030.14818@hpcvusn.cv.hp.com>
- Date: 30 Jul 92 19:20:30 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul30.183238.6202@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>, mmasood@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Mohammed A Masood) writes:
- > Hi, could any one on the net recommend a good book which deals with different
- > kinds of graphics files, .gif, tiff, rtt and so on. I mean a book explaining
- > these files and telling us how to convert from one form to another
- > Thanks in advance
-
- I just got the following book (details appended below) from my local
- university bookstore (special order) and strongly recommend it as an
- answer to your needs. The format descriptions for some of the more
- complex formats are not complete, but easily provide enough information
- to allow you to decode a file written in that format.
-
- Regards,
-
- Mark F. Cook
-
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- > From: johnl@iecc.cambridge.ma.us (John R. Levine)
- > Date: Mon, 8 Jun 1992 05:57:17 GMT
- > Subject: Graphics File Formats
- > Organization: I.E.C.C.
- > Newsgroups: misc.books.technical
- >
- > David Kay and John Levine (that's me,) "Graphics File Formats,"
- > Windcrest/McGraw-Hill, May 1992, ISBN 0-8306-3059-7 $24.95 paper,
- > ISBN 0-8306-3060-0 $36.95 hardcover, 278 pp.
- >
- > We describe many major graphics file formats. For most of them (all
- > but JPEG and CGM) we go all the way down to the bit level so there's
- > enough to write code that handles the file format. We've attempted
- > to include as much folklore as we can, e.g. the facts about PCX that
- > aren't in the Z-Soft handout, poorly documented proprietary TIFF
- > content types, and which fields in a TGA file people really use.
- >
- > Table of Contents
- >
- > 1 Graphics Representation Theory
- > 2 Formats and Applications
- >
- > Bit Maps
- > --------
- > 3 Z-Soft PCX
- > 4 MacPaint
- > 5 Aldus Tagged Image File Format
- > 6 Compuserve Graphics Interchange Format
- > 7 Digital Research Gem IMG
- > 8 IFF/ILBM
- > 9 Truevision Targa
- > 10 Microsoft Windows BMP
- > 11 Sun Rasterfile
- > 12 Unix PBM
- > 13 X Window XBM
- > 14 X Window XWD
- > 15 JPEG
- > 16 FITS
- >
- > Vectors
- > -------
- > 17 Autocad DXF
- > 18 Hewlett Packard HP-GL
- > 19 Lotus PIC
- > 20 Unix Plot(4)
- >
- > Printers
- > --------
- > 21 Hewlett Packard PCL
- > 22 Adobe Encapsulated Postscript
- >
- > Display Lists or Metafiles
- > -----------------------------
- > 23 Microsoft Windows Metafile
- > 24 Apple Macintosh PICT
- > 25 ANSI Computer Graphics Metafile
- >
- > 26 Other Formats
- > --
- > John R. Levine, IECC, POB 349, Cambridge MA 02238, +1 617 492 3869
-