Table of Contents

GRAPHICS FILES IN GENERAL. What Are Graphics Files?. Types of Graphics Files. Colors. Compression Techniques. Memory Management for File Processing. A FRAMEWORK FOR BITMAP FILES. A Framework for Bitmap Files. Libraries for Monochrome Images. Libraries for Grayscale Images. Libraries for Full-Color Images. Libraries for General Pixel Images. RUN LENGTH COMPRESSED FORMATS. MacPaint. PCX. GEM IMG. IFF/ILBM Bitmap Images. UNCOMPRESSED FORMATS. Windows Bitmap. Targa. DICTIONARY COMPRESSED FORMATS. GIF. TIFF. JPEG. VECTOR FORMATS. HP-GL. MS Windows Metafiles. PRINTER FORMATS. HP Printer Control Language. PostScript. FORMAT CONVERSION. Bitmap to Bitmap: The PBM Approach. Vector to Bitmap: Rasterization. Guessing a File Format. References. Index.