Joachim_Kainz@p11.f11.n310.z2.fidonet.org (Joachim Kainz) (05/26/91)
> Can anyone give me any info on the MS-Windows paintbrush .PCX file > format? If not the file specs, a good source would suffice. The PCX-Header contains: offset bytes comment --------------------------------------------------------------------- 0 1 ID. must be set to 0x0A 1 1 version number 0 = version 2.5 2 = version 2.8 (with palette-info) 3 = version 2.8 (w/o pallete-info) 5 = version 3.0 2 1 0 = uncoded, 1 = RLE-coded 3 1 bits per pixel 4 2 xMin 6 2 yMin 8 2 xMax 10 2 yMax 12 2 horizontal resolution (dots per inch) 14 2 vertical resolution (dots per inch) 16 48 color map (16*3byte) 64 1 reserved 65 1 number of color planes (max. 4) 66 2 bytes per line (must be an even number) 68 2 palette-data (1 = color - B/W, 2 = gray-scale) 70 58 unused If you need more information, just let me know. Greetings from Vienna, jfk.
Jeff_Cochran@f1302.n371.z1.fidonet.org (Jeff Cochran) (05/27/91)
Doug The Graphsupport forum on CompuServe has a file with the ZSoft .PCX file characteristics. TYhere's also a book out by Stephen Rimmer that is great for all graphics file formats, including .PCX. Sorry, but I don't recall the name off hand. Jeff