Encyclopedia of Graphics File Formats

Table of Contents

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

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

Pixels and Coordinates
Pixel Data and Palettes
Color
Overlays and Transparency
For Further Information

Chapter 3. Bitmap Files

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

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

Platform Independence?
How Metafiles Are Organized
Pros and Cons of Metafiles

Chapter 6. Platform Dependencies

Byte Order
File Size and Memory Limitations
Floating-point Formats
Bit Order
Filenames
For Further Information

Chapter 7. Format Conversion

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

Reading Graphics Data
Writing Graphics Data
Test Files
Designing Your Own Format
For Further Information

Chapter 9. Data Compression

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

Multimedia File Formats
Types of Data
For Further Information

Appendix A. Graphics Files and Resources on the Internet

Encoding of Graphics Files
Email
USENET News
Mailing Lists
FTP Archives
Archie
The World Wide Web (WWW)
Internet Graphics Resources
For Further Information

Appendix B. Graphics Files and Resources on the Commercial Services

CompuServe
America Online
Bulletin Board Systems

Appendix C. Installation and Setup

Using the CD-ROM
Installing GFF
Removing GFF
Which Browsers Can I Use?
Accessing Software on the CD-ROM
How Does GFF Work?
Customizing GFF

Index

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