[Previous] [Title Page] [Index] [Contents] [Home]
There are a number of graphic file format documents at the following locations:
Encapsulated PostScript Files Specification, Version 3.0.
http://www.adobe.com/supportservice/devrelations/PDFS/TN/5002.EPSF_Spec_v3.0.pdf
Graphics Interchange Format SM, Version 89a
CompuServe Incorporated
Columbus, Ohio
Available on CompuServe, in the GRAPHSUPPORT forum, library 14, file GIF89A.DOC, GIF89A.SIT or GIF89A.ARC. Also available on other major online services. There is no definitive location on the Internet, but you might want to search AltaVista for this file.
Wallace, Gregory K. The JPEG Still Picture Compression Standard , Communications of the ACM, April 1991 (vol. 34 no. 4), pp. 30-44.
The Data Compression Book by Mark Nelson, published by M&T Books (Redwood City, CA), 1991, ISBN 1-55851-216-0.
JPEG Still Image Data Compression Standard by William B. Pennebaker and Joan L. Mitchell, published by Van Nostrand
Reinhold, 1993, ISBN 0-442-01272-1. This book includes the complete text of the ISO JPEG standards (DIS 10918-1 and draft DIS 10918-2).
The JFIF file format specification can be ordered from:
Literature Department
C-Cube Microsystems, Inc.
399A West Trimble Road
San Jose, CA 95131
(408) 944-6300
Macintosh Technical Note PT 24: MacPaint Document Format
This document can be found on the web at http://developer.apple.com/technotes/pt/pt_24.html. You’ll also want to look at the PackBits description at http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/mac/OSUtilities/OSUtilities-39.html#HEADING39-39.
Inside Macintosh : Imaging with QuickDraw .
Published by Addison-Wesley, and available at major bookstores.
Chapter 7, which is on the web at http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/mac/QuickDraw/QuickDraw-332.html, describes pictures in general, including how to create PICT files. Appendix A, at http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/mac/QuickDraw/QuickDraw-458.html, describes the opcodes stored in a QuickDraw picture.
PNG (Portable Network Graphics) Specification Version 1.0
The definitive site for the PNG graphic format is http://www.cdrom.com/pub/png/.
Standard for RLE files
Chris Hopkins
Thunderware
21 Orinda Way
Orinda, CA 94563
(510)254-6581
The Scan Image format was described in early ThunderScan documentation. Thunderware prefers that developers support TIFF files if they want to work with their scanners.
Startup Screens contain either a 512 x 342 bitmap in the data fork (uncompressed), or a PICT ID=0 resource in the resource fork. (See the information for PICT, above.)
TIFF 6.0
Available from Adobe at http://www.adobe.com/supportservice/devrelations/PDFS/TN/TIFF6.pdf.
[Previous] [Title Page] [Index] [Contents] [Home]
Copyright ©1998 by Kevin A. Mitchell. All rights reserved.