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INCITS/ISO/IEC 8632-3 : 1999

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INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY - COMPUTER GRAPHICS - METAFILE FOR THE STORAGE AND TRANSFER OF PICTURE DESCRIPTION INFORMATION - PART 3: BINARY ENCODING
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Hardcopy , PDF

Language(s)

English

Published date

01-01-2005

1 Scope
2 Conformance
3 Normative references
4 Notational conventions
5 Overall structure
   5.1 General form of metafile
   5.2 General form of pictures
   5.3 General structure of the binary metafile
   5.4 Structure of the command header
6 Primitive data forms
   6.1 Signed integer
   6.2 Unsigned integer
   6.3 Character
   6.4 Fixed point real
   6.5 Floating point
7 Representation of abstract parameter types
8 Representation of each element
   8.1 Method of presentation
   8.2 Delimiter elements
   8.3 Metafile descriptor elements
   8.4 Picture descriptor elements
   8.5 Control elements
   8.6 Graphical primitive elements
   8.7 Attribute elements
   8.8 Escape element
   8.9 External elements
   8.10 Segment control and segment attribute elements
   8.11 Application structure descriptor elements
9 Defaults
10 Profile encoding rules, proforma, and Model Profile
   10.1 Encodings
   10.2 Metafile defaults
   10.3 Floating point values
   10.4 Profile proforma tables (PPF)
   10.5 Permissible alternative coding representation
Annex A (normative) Formal grammar
Annex B (informative) Examples
Annex C (informative) List of binary encoding metafile element
        codes

Describes 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.

DocumentType
Standard
Pages
78
ProductNote
Reconfirmed 1999
PublisherName
Information Technology Industry Council
Status
Current

Standards Relationship
ISO/IEC 8632-3:1999 Identical

ISO/IEC 2022:1994 Information technology Character code structure and extension techniques
ISO/IEC 646:1991 Information technology ISO 7-bit coded character set for information interchange
IEEE 754-2008 REDLINE IEEE Standard for Floating-Point Arithmetic

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