[comp.sys.amiga] Looking for generic IFF reader

klm@munsell.UUCP (Kevin McBride) (07/30/87)

Ok, so it's like this... There's a few Amigoids here at Eikonix who would
like to take on this unofficial pet project.

We manufacture a textile design system called the Designmaster 9000 (tm)
that among other things like a really fancy color editing workstation
has the capability of generating plots up to "E" size on an Iris
ink jet plotter.

What we want to do is put a general purpose IFF picture file reader on
our system that will allow us to read IFF files from an Amiga through
a high speed serial port and translate the IFF data into our own format
of raster image data.

Our system has higher resolution and a lot more colors available, so there
shouldn't be a problem in the translation from "Amiga image space" to our
own.

I seem to recall that not too long ago somebody (maybe Leo?) posted some
code for just such a beast.  I figure that all I need to do is keep the
code that does the IFF decoding and add my own code to convert to our
image format.  Does this sound reasonable?  Does anybody have this code
that they could either post or e-mail to me?

We have an "OK" C compiler on the target (DEC) machine, and I'd rather try to
convert somebody else's work than try to write my own.

Please reply soon so that I can turn this over to the other Amigoids here.
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