Encyclopedia of Graphics File Formats
Table of Contents
- Preface
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- About This Book and the CD-ROM
- Who Is the Book For?
- How to Use the Book
- Conventions Used in This Book
- Terminology of Computer Graphics
- About the File Format Specifications
- About the Examples
- About the Images
- About the Software
- Which Platforms?
- Request for Comments
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1. Introduction
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- The Basics
- Graphics Files
- Graphics Data
- Types of Graphics File Formats
- Elements of a Graphics File
- Converting Formats
- Compressing Data
- Chapter 2. Computer Graphics Basics
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- Pixels and Coordinates
- Pixel Data and Palettes
- Color
- Overlays and Transparency
- For Further Information
- Chapter 3. Bitmap Files
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- How Bitmap Files Are Organized
- Header
- Examples of Bitmap Headers
- Bitmap Data
- Footer
- Other Bitmap File Data Structures
- Other Bitmap File Features
- Pros and Cons of Bitmap File Formats
- Chapter 4. Vector Files
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- Vector Versus Bitmap Files
- What Is Vector Data?
- Vector Files and Device Independence
- Sources of Vector Format Files
- How Vector Files Are Organized
- Vector File Size Issues
- Scaling Vector Files
- Text in Vector Files
- Pros and Cons of Vector Files
- Chapter 5. Metafiles
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- Platform Independence?
- How Metafiles Are Organized
- Pros and Cons of Metafiles
- Chapter 6. Platform Dependencies
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- Byte Order
- File Size and Memory Limitations
- Floating-point Formats
- Bit Order
- Filenames
- For Further Information
- Chapter 7. Format Conversion
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- Is It Really Possible?
- Don't Do It if You Don't Need to ...
- ...But if You Do
- Other Format Conversion Considerations
- Chapter 8. Working With Graphics Files
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- Reading Graphics Data
- Writing Graphics Data
- Test Files
- Designing Your Own Format
- For Further Information
- Chapter 9. Data Compression
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- Data Compression Terminology
- Pixel Packing
- Run-length Encoding (RLE)
- Lempel-Ziv-Welch (LZW) Compression
- CCITT (Huffman) Encoding
- JPEG Compression
- For Further Information About Data Compression
- Chapter 10. Multimedia
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- Multimedia File Formats
- Types of Data
- For Further Information
- Appendix A. Graphics Files
and Resources on the Internet
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- Encoding of Graphics Files
- Email
- USENET News
- Mailing Lists
- FTP Archives
- Archie
- The World Wide Web (WWW)
- Internet Graphics Resources
- For Further Information
- Glossary
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