Encyclopedia of Graphics File Formats
By James D. Murray and William vanRyper
928 pages, ISBN: 1-56592-058-9, $59.95 (US)

We have just published this guide to nearly 100 graphics file formats: from
major, standardized formats, like GIF, TIFF, TGA, and BMP to newer or
specialized formats, like SGI YAODL, Rayshade, and Facesaver. If you are a
graphics programmer who needs to know the details of a format (whether
it's big- or little-endian, how many colors can be stored, and precisely
what data appears in each bit or pixel) or anyone else who needs to deal
with the low-level technical details of graphics files, this book is for
you.  It is for programmers on any platform-- MS-DOS, Windows, OS/2, UNIX,
the Macintosh, and others.

In addition to describing the details of the file formats, the Encyclopedia
of Graphics File Formats contains a detailed discussion of graphics
concepts and programming, covering such topics as types of graphics data
(vector, bitmap, metafile, scene description, animation, multimedia),
truecolor, palettes, and color--its perception, conversion, and
quantization. It describes in detail different methods of compressing
graphics data (e.g., run-length encoding, LZW, CCITT, JPEG) and ways of
converting from one type of file format to another. It also includes
information on new graphics initiatives, including JPEG (an emerging image
data compression standard of particular interest in multimedia technology)
and MPEG (a set of digital and audio compression standards for sound and
motion picture data).

The book comes with a CD-ROM on which we've included a collection of
resources that are hard for individuals to find (in many cases, they have
never before been available outside the organizations that developed
them). We've assembled original file format specification documents from
such vendors as Adobe, Aldus, Apple, IBM, Microsoft, and Silicon Graphics,
along with test images and code examples for many of the formats. Also on
the CD-ROM is a set of publicly available software--for MS-DOS, Windows,
OS/2, UNIX, and Macintosh platforms--that will let you convert, view, and
manipulate graphics files and images.

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