Image File Support

Image File Type

Internal support in Fire

Creation using rasdump command

Xmarc image file (.ras)

Full

All depths

JPEG graphics format (.jpg, .jpeg)

Full

All depths

JPEG 2000 graphics format (.jp2, .j2k)

Full (via DLL)

not available

Graphics Interchange Format (.gif)

Full (except animated)

not available

Portable Network Graphics Format (.png)

Full

All depths

PC Paintbrush PCX format (.pcx)

Full

not available

Sun image file (.ras .im8)

Full

not available

Tagged Image File Format (TIFF) (.tif)

Tiff Ver 6.0 (see below)

All depths

Windows bitmap (.bmp .rle)

Full

All depths

Windows monochrome bitmap(.wbmp)

Full

Monochrome

Windows icon (.ico) or cursor (.cur)

Full

not available

Windows animated cursor (.ani)

Full (Windows only)

not available

Windows meta-file (.wmf, .emf)

Full (Windows only)

not available

ER Mapper Compressed Wavelet Format (.ecw)

Full (Windows and Solaris only, via DLL)

not available

Mr SID image format (.sid)

Full (via DLL)

not available

X Bitmap text file (no extension)

Full

not available

X Pixmap text file (.xpm)

Full

not available

X Window Dump files (.xwd)

Full

not available

 

Fire Image File

Version:

Fire Release 5.2

Format:

Image in XImage format (1, 8, 24 bit uncompressed)

Color Depth:

  • Mono (1 bit/pixel)

  • Color (8 bits/pixel)

  • Color (24 bits/pixel)

Compression Schemes Supported:

n/a

Optional Features:

  • Monochrome stencil

  • Hotspot

  • Menu matrix

 

JPEG Graphics Format

Version:

Current Independent JPEG Group's library

Color Depth:

Color (24 bits/pixel)

Compression Schemes Supported:

JPEG compression

Optional Features:

  • Monochrome stencil

  • Hotspot

  • Menu matrix

 

GIF Graphics Interchange Format

Version:

87a and 89a

Color Depth:

Color (256 color, 8 bits/pixel)

Unsupported Schemes:

Animated GIF

Optional Features:

  • Monochrome stencil

 

Portable Network Graphics PNG Format

Version:

PNG Ver 1.0.3 (or earlier)

Color Depth:

  • Mono (1 bit/pixel)

  • Greyscale (2 bit/pixel)

  • Color/Greyscale (3 bit/pixel)

  • Color/Greyscale (4 bit/pixel)

  • Color/Greyscale (8 bits/pixel)

  • Color/Greyscale (16 bits/pixel)

  • Color/Greyscale (24 bits/pixel)

  • Color/Greyscale (32 bits/pixel)

Supported Compression Schemes:

All

Optional Features:

  • Monochrome stencil

 

PC Paintbrush PCX Format

Version:

PCX Ver 3.0 (or earlier)

Color Depth:

  • Mono (1 bit/pixel)

  • Color (8 bits/pixel)

 

Sun Image File

Color Depth:

  • Mono (1 bit/pixel)

  • Color (8 bits/pixel)

  • Color (24 bits/pixel)

Compression Schemes Supported:

Sun RLE

 

TIFF Image File

Version:

TIFF Rev 6.0

Color Depth:

  • Mono (1 bit/pixel)

  • Color (8 bits/pixel)

Compression Schemes Supported:

  • No compression - "dump mode"

  • Huffman

  • CCITT 1D Huffman

  • Word-aligned 1D Huffman (32773)

  • ISO JBIG

  • Deflate

  • CCITT RLE CCITT modified Huffman RLE

  • CCITT RLE/W

  • CCITT Group 3 fax encoding

  • CCITT Group 4 fax encoding

  • LZW (Lempel-Ziv & Welch)

  • JPEG DCT

  • Macintosh "PackBits" RLE (32773)

  • ThunderScan RLE (32809)

  • NeXT 2-bit (32766)

  • PixarLog

Unsupported Compression Schemes:

"Old-style JPEG compression" (6)

Supported TIFF Types: (combinations of photometric type and bits-per-pixel)

  • Color palette 2, 4, 8 bit colored images

  • Color RGB 24 bit color image

  • Contiguous and separated RGB formats

  • Greyscale 2, 4, 8 bit images

  • Monochrome

Supported (but untested) TIFF Types:

  • 1 and 2 bit color palette

  • 2 bit greyscale

  • RGB contiguous and separate 8 bit

  • RGB contiguous and separated 16 bit

Unsupported Photometric Types:

  • Transparency mask (photometric 4)

  • 1976 CIE Lab(photometric 8)

  • YCbCr !CCIR (photometric 6)

Multi-image TIFF

Fire 5.2 and later implements the reading of multi-image tiff files, indicated by a %<n> attached to the file name, e.g. to read the 5th image from a multi-image file:

wdisplay multiff.tif%5

The numeric function imageframes() is available to query the number of frames in a multi-image tiff file.

 

Windows or OS/2 Bitmap

Color Depth:

  • Mono (1 bit/pixel)

  • Color (4 bits/pixel)

  • Color (8 bits/pixel)

  • Color (16 bits/pixel)

  • Color (24 bits/pixel)

  • Color (32 bits/pixel)

Compression Schemes Supported:

  • No compression

  • RLE4 (encoded and absolute modes)

  • RLE8 (encoded and absolute modes)

  • BITFIELDS (32 bit schemes-Unix only)