This text features detailed specifications for 30 popular graphics file formats so that readers can more quickly and easily decide which standards are best for their applications. New to this edition are chapters on formats important to multimedia and video, including MPEG, FL1 and QuickTime; expanded discussion of data compression; and coverage of format updates, such as TIFF 6.0. Readers can also get updated information on: JPEG; GEM bit image; Windows BMP; PostScript; HP PCL; CGM; GIF; Targa; MacPaint; PICT; Windows Metafile; and Lotus PIC. This book should be of interest to software developers, systems managers and computer hobbyists.
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John Levine (Trumansburg, NY) is an internationally acclaimed Internet authority, author, and the host of his own radio show. He’s the author of two dozen books ranging from Linkers and Loaders (O’Reilly) to The Internet for Dummies(Hungry Minds). He also runs online newsgroups and mailing lists, hosts a hundred Web sites, and consults on programming languages and Internet topics.
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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Save your money,
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This review is from: Graphics File Formats (Paperback)
If you are a programmer and in a hurry to implement your own graphics filter then don't buy this book. Its treament of the various formats is essentially devoid of any examples and detail. A very superficial book with large fonts a "buttons" fulfilling the need to ensure bulk to the book at the expense of content. There is no CD with example coding and decoding examples, very very few tables of giving a graphical view of the file structures. In short it is a poorly presented and poorly written book...hardly worth $10 rather than the $25 they are asking....Go by the O'Reilly book Encyclopaedia of Graphics Formats...expensive for sure but it has what this book lacks and that is content.
2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Quick introduction to JPEG/JFIF,
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This review is from: Graphics File Formats (Paperback)
I needed a book for a quick and slightly detailed introduction to JPEG/JFIF file formats. This book fit the bill!
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