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- From: davis@gauss.enet.dec.com (Peter Davis)
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- Subject: Re: Graphics book
- Message-ID: <1992Jul30.192435.3469@engage.pko.dec.com>
- Date: 30 Jul 92 20:28:49 GMT
- References: <1992Jul30.183238.6202@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
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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
-
- From an earlier posting:
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- From: johnl@iecc.cambridge.ma.us (John R. Levine)
- Subject: Graphics File Formats
- Message-ID: <1992Jun8.055717.28954@iecc.cambridge.ma.us>
- Sender: johnl@iecc.cambridge.ma.us (John R. Levine)
- Organization: I.E.C.C.
- Date: Mon, 8 Jun 1992 05:57:17 GMT
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- 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.
-
- The book is at last actually available -- it showed up in my local
- bookstore June 1.
-
- 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
- johnl@iecc.cambridge.ma.us, {ima|spdcc|world}!iecc!johnl
- "If you can't live without me, why aren't you dead yet?"
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