BS ISO/IEC 8632-3:1999

Information technology. Computer graphics. Metafile for the storage and transfer of picture description information - Binary encoding

Published:

1 Nov 2001

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Withdrawn:

29 May 2025

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1 Scope

This part of ISO/IEC 8632 specifies a binary encoding of the Computer Graphics Metafile. For each of the elements specified in ISO/IEC 8632-1, this part specifies an encoding in terms of data types.

For each of these data types, an explicit representation in terms of bits, octets and words is specified. For some data types, the exact representation is a function of the precisions being used in the metafile, as recorded in the Metafile Descriptor.

This encoding of the Computer Graphics Metafile will, in many circumstances, minimize the effort required to generate and interpret the metafile.

Product Details

Descriptors

Data transfer

Data layout

Data codes

Graphic representation

Computer graphics

Coded representation

Graphic displays

Code conversion

Graphic characters

Files

Data handling

Coding (data conversion)

File organization (computers)

Data conversion

Binary digits

ICS Codes

35.040.30 Coding of graphical and photographical information

35.140 Computer graphics

Committee

IST/37

International relationships

Identical to:

ISO/IEC 8632-3:1999

ISBN

0 580 38582 5

Publisher

BSI