Compressed Image File Formats : JPEG, PNG, GIF, Xbm, BMP

John Miano
Pearson Education
 9780201604436
0-201-60443-4

A comprehensive reference on the major graphics file formats and the compression technologies, this work is a useful resource for graphics programmers, especially those developing graphical applications.

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for the Web. It examines the most common graphics file formats in detail and demonstrates how to encode and decode image files for each.