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From: mskuhn@faui09.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Markus Kuhn)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: New ISO graphics standard
Keywords: ISO, IPI, IFF
Message-ID: <mskuhn.674828211@faui09>
Date: 21 May 91 12:16:51 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: CSD., University of Erlangen, Germany
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I have heard about a new ISO standard called IPI. It defines
a file format (IFF) for raster graphics as well as an API.
The graphics may be compressed pictures (JPEG), compressed
movies (MPEG), bilevel pictures, volume data (3d pixels), ...
It seems to be an alround file format like TIFF, but much
more flexible.

Standard formats like JPEG don't contain all the information needed
to reproduce the stored picture (e.g. the color space). As far as
as I know, IFF will contain all this and a lot of other informations
(e.g. the date the picture has been produced, ...).

Has anybody more detailed information on this topic???

Markus

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