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From: ahg@k.cc.purdue.edu (Allen Braunsdorf)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Popular Image Format List
Keywords: maximum coverage at minimal cost
Message-ID: <2505@k.cc.purdue.edu>
Date: 11 May 88 15:50:02 GMT
Organization: 3-D Computer Graphics From Hell
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I would like to know which image storage formats are most widely used by
comp.graphics subscribers.  I use IFF here (much of my work is on an Amiga
2000, the rest on UNIX(tm) systems and several graphic printers) and it does
everything I need, but I am looking at alternatives.

So far, many people have pointed me to GIF.  GIF is not acceptable for my
use (initially resizing and resampling) because aspect ratio is important
(Amiga pixels are 5:11 or 10:11 or 20:11 our Mac is 1:1... etc.) and that
standard says nothing about it.

I am porting my graphics utilities to the Amiga and would like the package to
be able to read as many different formats as I can so I can import more new
images.  Is the set of portable bitmap utilities a good place to start?

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