image formats

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image formats - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  image formats
  
     <graphics, file format> There are many formats used to store
     images in files.  GIF, TIFF and JPEG are very common.
     Others are BIFF, bmp, Clear, FITS, IFF, NFF,
     OFF, PCX, PNG, TGA, XBM.
  
     Some of these are documented on-line at the following sites:
  
     The Graphics File Format Page (http://dcs.ed.ac.uk/~mxr/gfx/)
     .
     The NCSA file formats archive (ftp://ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu/misc/file.formats/graphics.formats)
     .
     The Avalon repository (ftp://avalon.viewpoint.com/pub/format_specs)
     .
  
     [Others?]
  
     (1997-08-07)