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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 22:59:49 GMT
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In article <12911@netcom.UUCP> mcmahan@netcom.UUCP (Dave Mc Mahan) writes:
>
> 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. 

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the ProWrite file format an IFF format? They
seem to have an IFF header chunk, and all that song and dance. 

( ...if this is what you mean by "a 'text' type of object" )