[comp.graphics] Image file format

dulimart@cpsvax.cps.msu.edu (Hansye S. Dulimarta) (11/23/89)

I am currently working with a hand scanner (the COMPLETE hand scanner).
One of the softwares has the option to save the scanned image either as
(1) Image file, (2) Dr. Halo file, (3) PC Paintbrush file, (4) WIndows
Paint file.
Could somebody tell me the way each format stores the image. I need this
info in order to decode the image from the scanner and use it for other
purpose.
I appreciate your help.

Hans.



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msschaa@cs.vu.nl (Schaap MS) (11/23/89)

In article <5506@cps3xx.UUCP> dulimart@cpsvax.UUCP (Hansye S. Dulimarta) writes:
>I am currently working with a hand scanner (the COMPLETE hand scanner).
>One of the softwares has the option to save the scanned image either as
>(1) Image file, (2) Dr. Halo file, (3) PC Paintbrush file, (4) WIndows
>Paint file.
>Could somebody tell me the way each format stores the image. I need this
>info in order to decode the image from the scanner and use it for other
>purpose.

Get a copy of VPIC.
(VPIC21.ARC in MSDOS.GIF at Simtel)

It loads and saves several graphic formats (among others
(2) (3) and (4) ).