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From: mark@calvin..westford.ccur.com (Mark Thompson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: IFF24 Questions!
Keywords: HELP!
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Date: 12 Dec 90 21:26:26 GMT
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In article <6271@crash.cts.com> jburnes@crash.cts.com (Jim Burnes) writes:
>When asking Dan Baker of CATS for assistance in finding out the format for
>24bit IFF files, he forwarded to me a transcript of AmigaMail from
>Commodore.  Below we have an excerpt.....deleted...
>Can anyone tell me if my assumptions are correct?  Is Newtek still using
>their unique version of 24bit rgb ILBM files or have they joined the
>ASDG school?

If I read your article right, you have interpreted it correctly.
However, the NewTek Video Toaster and Toaster Paint do conform to the
standard IFF24 format. You can take any 24 bit image created on the
Toaster and freely read it into other programs that support IFF24
such as ASDG's TAD. I believe the the other format you mentioned is
an old NewTek format supported by DigiView. If you would like some
code that reads compressed and uncompressed IFF24 images, I wrote a
conversion utility for use with the PBMPlus package that will do this.
Drop me a line if you are interested. By the way, you can read an IFF24
image into DigiView and process it, but if you want to convert it to an
image viewable on any Amiga, TAD does a MUCH better job.
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