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From: mcmahan@netcom.UUCP (Dave Mc Mahan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Call for Device Independant Output, file format and user-interface standards on the Amiga
Keywords: standards user-interface output graphics device independant
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Date: 8 Jun 90 06:37:19 GMT
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 In a previous article, icsu8053@ming.cs.montana.edu (Craig Pratt) writes:
>From what I understand of IFF graphic images, thay are pure raster images.
>If they allow for vector graphics, it's news to me and it must be news to all 
>the Amiga developers out there.

I know that IFF files support sound, and I believe that there is a 'text' type
of object that is in the IFF docs.  I just FTP'ed the info (if you want the
address, let me know) from Fish disk #64.  This disk is rather old, but there
is conversation about being able to handle text in the IFF format.  Not that
many printers or programs out there can handle such blocks, but the standard
is available.  I need to read all the info more carefully, but it looks like
the basic mechanisms are there.  One just needs to find some software that can
properly use it.  Does anybody out there know of a FTP-able source for the
latest IFF docs?  I'd love to hear about something more current than what I
have.

>   / Craig Pratt                       / Montana State University, Bozeman MT/

  -dave