Top Document: Graphics File Formats FAQ (Part 3 of 4): Where to Get File Format Specifications Previous Document: CDL - CADKey CADL Language Next Document: CIF See reader questions & answers on this topic! - Help others by sharing your knowledge Type: Metafile Extension: CGM Version: Compression: None Color Depth: Maintainer: ANSI, ISO, IEC, DOD, NIST Specification: The current version of the CGM ANSI/ISO standard (commonly called CGM:1992) is: Information Processing Systems--Computer Graphics Metafile for the Storage and Transfer of Picture Description Information, ANSI/ISO 8632-1992. This standard superseded the early CGM:1986 (ANSI X3.122-1986) ANSI standard. The CGM standard is contained in four ISO standards documents: ISO/IEC 8632-1:1992 Part 1: Functional Specification ISO/IEC 8632-3:1992 Part 2: Character Encoding ISO/IEC 8632-3:1992 Part 3: Binary Encoding ISO/IEC 8632-4:1992 Part 4: Clear Text Encoding These documents may be obtained from the following organizations: International Standards Organization (ISO) 1 rue de Varembe Case Postal 56 CH-1211 Geneva 20 Switzerland Voice: +41 22 749 01 11 Fax: +41 22 733 34 30 American National Standards Institute (ANSI) Sales Department 11 West 42nd Street New York, NY 10036 Voice: 212.642.4900 Canadian Standards Association (CSA) Sales Group 178 Rexdale Blvd. Rexdale, Ontario, M9W 1R3 Voice: 416.747.444 And here are a few CGM Web pages: MIL-STD-2301, CGM Implementation Standard for the NIST Format Standard http://www.tasc.com/nitfs/NITFS_docs.html CGM Home Page at NIST http://speckle.ncsl.nist.gov/~lsr/cgm.htm Overview of CGM Standards http://speckle.ncsl.nist.gov/~lst/cgm_std.htm The Computer Graphics Metafile (CGM) http://www.agocg.ac.uk:8080/agocg/CGM.html A freely available C library for creating CGM files is available at: http://speckle.ncsl.nist.gov/~lorax/cgm/cd.html User Contributions:Top Document: Graphics File Formats FAQ (Part 3 of 4): Where to Get File Format Specifications Previous Document: CDL - CADKey CADL Language Next Document: CIF Part1 - Part2 - Part3 - Part4 - Single Page [ Usenet FAQs | Web FAQs | Documents | RFC Index ] Send corrections/additions to the FAQ Maintainer: jdm@ora.com (James D. Murray)
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