Download or read book Encyclopedia of Graphics File Formats written by James D. Murray and published by O'Reilly. This book was released on 1996 with total page 1174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 100 entries on file formats written to aid in the retrieval of graphics data regardless of the state of industry documentation of format specifications. Includes an overview of graphics data retrieval, treating subjects such as bitmap and vector files, platform dependencies, format conversion, and data compression. The CD-ROM includes the entire contents of the book, a world wide web browser, sample code that reads and writes a variety of formats, and third party utilities for file manipulation and conversion. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR