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From: arnold@ux.cs.man.ac.uk (Toby Howard)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics,comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Madness
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Date: 21 Apr 89 15:41:29 GMT
Organization: Computer Science, University of Manchester, UK
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OK, I give in. I posted something a few weeks ago about `picture format
madness'--- you know, there's TIFF and GIF and NFF and X bitmap and CGM and
this and that... and I'm totally confused.

Other people obviously are too, judging from the number of `me too!'
messages I've had, and the support that's appeared on the net.

Just now, I'm not so much interested in conversion between formats (maybe
later!), but I want to discover what they all ARE, and what they're FOR!

So I'll try and compile a list. Will you help me?

Just drop me a short note saying, `have you heard of xxxx? This is what
it's for, and here's a brief description, or at least a pointer to one.
Maybe here's where there are some archives, or something'.

           BUT IF SOMEONE'S ALREADY DONE THIS PLEASE STOP ME !

Thanks. I'm sure this will be useful.

Toby

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