Xref: utzoo comp.sys.mac.misc:9875 comp.sys.mac.wanted:3082 alt.graphics.pixutils:898 alt.graphics:76 comp.graphics:16750 comp.sys.mac.apps:4776 comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc:7677 Path: utzoo!utgpu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!uupsi!cci632!ritcsh!ultb!ritvax.isc.rit.edu!jav8106 From: jav8106@ritvax.isc.rit.edu (Doctor FORTRAN) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.wanted,alt.graphics.pixutils,alt.graphics,comp.graphics,comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: Re: Mac/PC graphics standard? Message-ID: <1991Mar19.202837.23158@isc.rit.edu> Date: 19 Mar 91 20:20:58 GMT References: Sender: news@isc.rit.edu (USENET News System) Reply-To: jav8106@ritvax.isc.rit.edu Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology Lines: 40 News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.3-4 Nntp-Posting-Host: vaxc In article , tc1n+@andrew.cmu.edu (Todd Lawrence Cignetti) writes... - -Jared, - -TIFF, is a standard that is recognized for both Macs and IBM's. If the -images are in color, I think GIF, might be the way to go. TIFF is a -standard accepted mostly by desktop publishing companies. It was -designed by Aldus, and several other companies to be a standard for -desktop pubilishing. The developers made the source code for reading, -writing, and compressing images public domain, so any vendor could -easily make his application read and write TIFF files. It definitely -works on IBM's and Mac's. I know that it works well for B&W and -grayscale images, but I've never used it with color, so I'm not sure. - --Todd TIFF (5.0 and above) is also for color images as well. It's fairly easy to write TIFF, but more difficult to read TIFF in the most robust, general way, because of the richness of what's available. For example: The picture may be broken up into several strips, the ordering of the strips in the file can be arbitrary, these strips do not need to be contiguous in the file (there can be superfluous bytes in the file, presumably to "word align" the strips), your color image can be pixel, line, or frame interleaved, etc., etc., etc. . . . If you just want to write files, or read files that you've written yourself, you might want to consider using a subset of TIFF. C ========================================================================== C === This subroutine will write a signature at the end of a posting. Subroutine Signature Write (*, 101) 101 Format (1H1, 'Doctor FORTRAN', /, ' Master of the Realm', /, 1 ' Reply: jav8106@ritvax.isc.rit.edu') Return End