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INCITS/ISO/IEC 8632-1 : 1999 : R2005

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INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY - COMPUTER GRAPHICS - METAFILE FOR THE STORAGE AND TRANSFER OF PICTURE DESCRIPTION INFORMATION - PART 1: FUNCTIONAL SPECIFICATION
Available format(s)

Hardcopy , PDF

Language(s)

English

Published date

01-01-2005

1 Scope
2 Conformance
3 Normative references
4 Terms and definitions
  4.1 Definitions
5 Symbols and abbreviated terms
6 Concepts
  6.1 Introduction
  6.2 Delimiter elements
  6.3 Metafile descriptor elements
  6.4 Picture descriptor elements
  6.5 Control elements
  6.6 Graphical primitive elements
  6.7 Attribute elements
  6.8 Escape elements
  6.9 External elements
  6.10 Segment elements
  6.11 Metafile states
  6.12 Registration
  6.13 Application Structure Elements
7 Abstract specification of elements
  7.1 Introduction
  7.2 Delimiter elements
  7.3 Metafile descriptor elements
  7.4 Picture descriptor elements
  7.5 Control elements
  7.6 Graphical primitive elements
  7.7 Attribute elements
  7.8 Escape elements
  7.9 External elements
  7.10 Segment elements
  7.11 Application structure descriptor elements
8 Metafile defaults
9 Profiles and conformance
  9.1 Introduction
  9.2 Conformance
  9.3 Criteria for designing profiles
  9.4 Form and format of a profile
  9.5 Profile rules, proforma, and model profile
Annex A (normative) Formal grammar of the functional specification
        of version 1 metafiles
      A.1 Introduction
      A.2 Notation used
      A.3 Detailed grammar
      A.4 Terminal symbols
Annex B (normative) Formal Grammar of the functional specification
        of version 2 metafiles
      B.1 Introduction
      B.2 Notation used
      B.3 Detailed grammar
      B.4 Terminal symbols
Annex C (normative) Formal grammar of the functional specification
        of version 3 metafiles
      C.1 Introduction
      C.2 Definitions
      C.3 Detailed Grammar
      C.4 Terminal symbols
Annex D (informative) Guidelines for metafile generators and
        interpreters
      D.1 Introduction
      D.2 Errors and degeneracies
      D.3 General guidelines
      D.4 Guidelines for element classes
Annex E (informative) Guidelines for private encodings
Annex F (informative) Reference models
Annex G (informative) Conversions between CIEXYZ reference colour
        space & metafile colour spaces
      G.1 Introduction
      G.2 CIELUV
      G.3 CIELAB
      G.4 RGB
      G.5 RGB-related
      G.6 CMYK
      G.7 Bibliography
Annex H (normative) Formal grammar of the functional specification
        of version 4 metafiles
      H.1 Introduction
      H.2 Definitions
      H.3 Detailed grammar
      H.4 Terminal Symbols
Annex I (normative) Proforma tables and font metrics
      I.1 Proforma tables
      I.2 Font character codes and metrics

Contains a file format suitable for the storage and retrieval of picture description information. The file format consists of an ordered set of elements that may be used to describe pictures in a way that is compatible between systems of different architectures, compatible with devices of differing capabilities and design, and meaningful to application constituencies.

DocumentType
Standard
Pages
470
ProductNote
Reconfirmed 2005
PublisherName
Information Technology Industry Council
Status
Current

Standards Relationship
ISO/IEC 8632-1:1999 Identical

ISO/IEC 10036:1996 Information technology Font information interchange Procedures for registration of font-related identifiers
ISO/IEC TR 10000-1:1998 Information technology Framework and taxonomy of International Standardized Profiles Part 1: General principles and documentation framework
ISO 7942:1985 Information processing systems Computer graphics Graphical Kernel System (GKS) functional description
ISO/IEC 9541-1:1991 Information technology — Font information interchange — Part 1: Architecture
ISO/IEC 8859-1:1998 Information technology 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets Part 1: Latin alphabet No. 1
ISO/IEC 9636-4 : 1991(R2016) INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY - COMPUTER GRAPHICS - INTERFACING TECHNIQUES FOR DIALOGUES WITH GRAPHICAL DEVICES - FUNCTIONAL SPECIFICATION - PART 4: SEGMENTS
ISO/IEC 2022:1994 Information technology Character code structure and extension techniques
ISO/IEC 9636-1 : 1991(R 2016) INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY - COMPUTER GRAPHICS - INTERFACING TECHNIQUES FOR DIALOGUES WITH GRAPHICAL DEVICES (CGI) - FUNCTIONAL SPECIFICATION - PART 1: OVERVIEW, PROFILES, AND CONFORMANCE
ISO 8601:2004 Data elements and interchange formats Information interchange Representation of dates and times
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ISO/IEC TR 10000-2:1998 Information technology Framework and taxonomy of International Standardized Profiles Part 2: Principles and Taxonomy for OSI Profiles
ISO/IEC 646:1991 Information technology ISO 7-bit coded character set for information interchange
ISO/IEC 9541-2:1991 Information technology — Font information interchange — Part 2: Interchange format
ISO/IEC 10646-1:2000 Information technology Universal Multiple-Octet Coded Character Set (UCS) Part 1: Architecture and Basic Multilingual Plane
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