Updated Guide Takes the Mystery Out of Today's Computer Graphics Formats

Graphics File Formats, 2nd Edition
David C. Kay and John R. Levine
Paper $26.95 ISBN 0-07-034025-0
Publication Date: November 1994

BLUE RIDGE SUMMIT, PA--Graphics File Formats is the essential on-the-job
reference for application developers who must learn to design their
products in many different formats and a valuable resource for end users
who need to understand the capabilities and limitations of their
graphics-based software.

In this new expanded edition, David C. Kay and John R. Levine discuss the
key features of 30 popular graphics file formats, including the latest
formats used in graphics-intensive applications such as animation and
multimedia. Kay and Levine present practical information on:

* FLI/FLC (AutoDesk)       * Windows Bitmap (BMP)
* QuickTime Animation      * WPG (WordPerfect)
* RIB (Renderman)          * UNIX plotformat
* JPEG                     * PICT
* MPEG                     * Sun Rasterfiles
* TIFF                     * HP-GL
* Truevision Targa         * MacPaint

. . . and many other formats. Each chapter is devoted to one Advance Copies
Available: September 1994 format, describing its advantages and
disadvantages as well as its variants and details of its principal
features. A useful resource for anyone involved with computer graphics,
this second edition of Graphics File Formats is certain to become the
standard reference on the subject.

About the authors:

David C. Kay (Harvard, Massachusetts) is an engineer and a consultant to
the computer and electronics industries. John R. Levine (Cambridge,
Massachusetts) is a software developer and consultant with a Ph.D. in
computer science from Yale University.

Available in bookstores or from the publisher (1-800-822-8158)

Windcrest/McGraw-Hill, Blue Ridge Summit, PA 17294-0850
1-800-233-1128,  FAX 800-932-0183

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