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- From: schaik@cnplss5.cft.philips.nl (Willem van Schaik)
- Subject: Re: Graphics File Formats
- Message-ID: <1992Dec16.105933.1812@cnplss5.cnps.philips.nl>
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- References: <life82INNj70@news.bbn.com> <Bz3pv0.I01@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <1992Dec11.230310.12582@twisto.eng.hou.compaq.com>
- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 10:59:33 GMT
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- mccreary@sword.eng.hou.compaq.com (Ed McCreary) writes:
-
- >In article <Bz3pv0.I01@news.cso.uiuc.edu> cl27111@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Christopher Lindsey) writes:
- >>telliott@bbn.com (Thomas R Elliott) writes:
- >>
- >>>For those interest, I discovered a book by David C. Kay and John R. Levine
- >>>that describes many different graphics file formats. The title is
- >>>"Graphics File Formats...
- >>>...The publisher is Windcrest/McGraw Hill and the price is $24.95.
- >>
- >> Do you happen to know the ISBN number of this book?
- >>
-
- >0-8306-3059-7
-
- >None of the bookstores I called have it in stock. In fact, only
- >one carried it. The number to call to order it from the publisher
- >is 1-800-822-8138. I'm considering getting it, but I don't like
- >to buy a book I haven't paged through. Could someone who
- >has it or has read it post a *small* review?
-
- I have the book and I like it. It provides basic data about a lot of
- graphic formats without much distracting info like how to use it, etc.
- It is good if you need knowledge about the internals to build for
- example your own reader, previewer, etc.
-
- Formats supported are:
-
- PCX
- MacPaint
- RIFF
- GIF
- GEM bit image
- IFF/ILBM
- Truevision Targa
- MS Windows Device Independent Bitmap
- Sun Raterfiles
- PBM
- X Window bitmaps
- X Window Dump
- JPEG
- FITS
- DXF
- HP-GL
- Lotus PIC
- UNIX plot format
- PCL
- Basic PostScript graphics
- WMF
- PICT
- CGM
-
- Willem van Schaik
- schaik@cnplss5.cnps.philips.nl
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