ISO/IEC 8632-3:1999

Information technology — Computer graphics — Metafile for the storage and transfer of picture description information — Part 3: Binary encoding ISO/IEC 8632-3:1999

Publication date:   Dec 16, 1999

Scope

This part of ISO/IEC 8632 specifies a binary encoding of the Computer Graphics Metafile. For each of the
elements specified in ISO/IEC 8632-1, this part specifies an encoding in terms of data types.
For each of these data types, an explicit representation in terms of bits, octets and words is specified. For some
data types, the exact representation is a function of the precisions being used in the metafile, as recorded in the
Metafile Descriptor.
This encoding of the Computer Graphics Metafile will, in many circumstances, minimize the effort required to
generate and interpret the metafile.