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From: abcscnge@csuna.UUCP (Scott "The Pseudo-Hacker" Neugroschl)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Graphics Files (TIFF, MSP or PCX)
Summary: PIC too!!!
Keywords: Graphics Files
Message-ID: <1537@csuna.UUCP>
Date: 11 Jan 89 04:49:16 GMT
References: <3045@watale.waterloo.edu> <625@ucrmath.EDU>
Reply-To: abcscnge@csuna.UUCP (Scott "The Pseudo Hacker" Neugroschl)
Organization: California State University, Northridge
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In article <625@ucrmath.EDU> jarob@ucrmath.UUCP (Karl Bunch) writes:
}Does anyone out there understand or know of any good publications
}on the format of a TIFF file under MS-DOS?  They are used to transport
}graphics from and to programs like Page Maker and ScanWare (Logitech)
}
}I would like to take a stab at a simple OCR program but my scanner
}utilities write to either TIFF, Microsoft Paint or PCX (Logitech's
}Paint programs I guess) format. And I can't seem to figure out the
}format of any of these files on a bit image level..
}

Also MSC's PIC (PC Paint+ 2.0) file format.  MS-Word supports PCX format
incorporation but not PIC. I would like to write a file conversion routine.
I would also like to convert to from PIC to MSP as then I could use Windows'
print to disk function...


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