Graphics File Formats

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• Bitmap File Formats
• CAD File Formats
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• Font File Formats
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Graphics File Formats

• Compressed Image File Formats: JPEG, PNG, GIF, XBM, BMP (ACM Press)

  By John Miano Addison-Wesley Professional Paperback (288 pages) Amazon.com: Compressed Image File Formats is an appealingly compact and useful guide to some of today's most popular file formats used for image data. For any programmer who needs to know how images are stored, this concise reference can serve as a really invaluable resource. Besides full coverage of the popular BMP, GIF, and PNG file formats, the book zeroes in on the JPEG standard, perhaps today's most popular (and most complicated) image format. In a series of short chapters, the book looks at JPEG in detail, from basic file organization (its format and marker fields), file compression techniques (like Huffman coding and DCT), and how to decode (read) and encode (write) JPEG images. By condensing hundreds of pages of specifications and documentation from the voluminous JPEG standard into this short volume, the author has created a worthwhile summary of key JPEG features and compression techniques useful to any graphics programmer. The book also includes C++ code for a simple JPEG encoder (on the accompanying CD-ROM). This example can get you started compressing images using the JPEG format. In addition, the book discusses techniques for creating and decoding progressive JPEGs (used for downloading images in stages, in progressively finer resolutions, over the Internet). Whether you are a programmer faced with decoding or encoding image data, or an interested Webmaster who wants to know the pros and cons of today's image file formats, Compressed Image File Formats provides a worthwhile and concise reference to what's inside image files. --Richard Dragan Topics covered: bitmap basics, color models, Windows BMP file format, XBM file format, JPEG basics and file format, JPEG File Interchange Format (JFIF), JPEG Huffman Coding, data unit encoding, Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT), matrix operations, JPEG decoding and encoding, progressive JPEG, GIF file format and compression, and PNG file format. List Price: $54.99 Lowest New Price: $24.98 Lowest Used Price: $13.57 Usually ships in 24 hours (As of 20:18 Pacific 8 Jul 2008 More Info) Buy It Now

  
  
  
• Graphics File Formats

  By David C. Kay McGraw-Hill Companies Paperback (496 pages) Book Description: For software developers, systems managers, and computer hobbyists, this book will help bring a welcome sense of order to the chaotic world of graphics file format. David Kay and John Levine have compiled detailed specifications for 30 popular graphics file formats, so readers can more quickly and easily decide which standards are best for their applications. List Price: $29.95 Lowest Used Price: $0.47 (As of 03:48 Pacific 8 Jul 2008 More Info) Buy It Now

  
  
  
• Internet File Formats: Your Complete Resource for Sending, Receiving, and Using Internet Files

  By Tim Kientzle Coriolis Group Books Paperback (416 pages) Book Description: Provides a detailed file format dictionary to help you understand most of the major file formats found on the Internet. Comes with a CD-ROM jam-packed with programs and tools to help you work with the files you come across on the Internet. Includes player programs to use files you download from the Internet. Contains compression and decompression utilities, and utilities to help you convert files from one format to another. Offers the tools to help you create HTML files and publish on the Web, and efficiently transfer your files. Helps you to read, write, convert, and use most of the major file types encountered on the Internet. List Price: $39.99 Lowest New Price: $3.99 Lowest Used Price: $0.38 (As of 16:52 Pacific 8 Jul 2008 More Info) Buy It Now