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
Hardcopy , PDF
24-04-2024
English
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
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