satch@caen.engin.umich.edu (SATYANARAYAN CHADA) (07/04/89)
We wish to display images saved in IFF and
TIFF formats using our own programs.
Unfortunately, we can't seem to find the
storage specification for the file format.
We don't even know who controls this standard.
If you can tell us where to get the copy of the
specification, we would greatly appreciate it.
Further, any information on other imaging
standards would be useful.
Thanks.
---Satchdoug@xdos.UUCP (Doug Merritt) (07/04/89)
In article <4434940c.1285f@maize.engin.umich.edu> satch@caen.engin.umich.edu (SATYANARAYAN CHADA) writes: >We wish to display images saved in IFF and TIFF formats using our own >programs. Unfortunately, we can't seem to find the storage specification for >the file format. We don't even know who controls this standard. That's *two* standards you're talking about. >Further, any information on other imaging >standards would be useful. You must be kidding. That's like saying "any other information on graphics would be useful". I very much doubt that just any old information on the subject would be useful to you; there are far more "imaging standards" than you could possibly imagine, and if you were unfortunate enough to receive all the information that various people have online on the different standards, you wouldn't live long enough to browse through it all. The whole tone of this posting suggests that all you really want to do is write some graphics programs that can save their images in a file for later, and that you don't really know *what* you want beyond that. Or if you *do* know, then you're being remarkably vague. On the off chance you really do want precisely what you're asking for, enclosed below is a recent posting from comp.graphics about TIFF that provides that info for you. IFF is a distinct standard, used mostly on the Amiga, documentation available from Commodore, as somebody else will probably say fairly shortly. You might also want to investigate Jef Poskanzer's PBM (Portable Bit Map) package, available from Usenet source archives. Along with defining a hardware independent bit map format, the source interconverts from about a dozen other formats. In fact, investigating the source archives for comp.sources.unix and comp.sources.misc, along with the Fish disks, would be one excellent to start familiarizing yourself with what is what. You really sound like you're working in an information vacuum. Doug -------------------- Newsgroups: comp.graphics Subject: Tiff 5.0 (Re: GIF viewers are inconsistent) Date: 29 Jun 89 19:17:11 GMT [...] To get a Tiff Developer's ToolKit send $30 (includes postage) to Aldus Corporation 411 First Avenue South Suite 220 Seattle, WA 98104 Or Call (206) 622 - 5500 for info [...] -- Doug Merritt {pyramid,apple}!xdos!doug Member, Crusaders for a Better Tomorrow Professional Wildeyed Visionary