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From: Srini - <RasikaSrinivasan@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Representing image data
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a good starting point might be ImageMagick. There is an Ada binding
even though somewhat dormant.

HTH
On Mar 10, 9:16=A0pm, Gautier <gaut...@fakeaddress.nil> wrote:
> Kenneth Almquist wrote:
> > I've been working on the design of an image decoding library. =A0The
> > basic idea is that the library will examine the first few bytes of
> > an image, determine the format, and call the appropriate decoder,
> > so that an application using the library can read images without
> > writing code for each image format it wants to handle.
>
> How common are the formats' encodings ? JPEG, PNG, BMP, GIF, TGA, PPM... =
?
> Compressed ? With/without loss ? Not compressed ?
> There are various libraries, full Ada (at least for BMP, GIF, TGA & PPM)
> or bindings, which support these usual formats. Could be a good starting
> point, and you also could use them for the "back-end" jobs.
>
> HTH
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