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DIN EN 28632-3 : 1994 AMD 1 1996
Withdrawn
A Withdrawn Standard is one, which is removed from sale, and its unique number can no longer be used. The Standard can be withdrawn and not replaced, or it can be withdrawn and replaced by a Standard with a different number.
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INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY - COMPUTER GRAPHICS, METAFILE FOR THE STORAGE AND TRANSFER OF PICTURE DESCRIPTION INFORMATION - PART 3: BINARY ENCODING
01-04-2006
12-01-2013
1 Scope
2 Normative references
3 Notational conventions
4 Overall structure
4.1 General form of metafile
4.2 General form of pictures
4.3 General structure of the binary metafile
4.4 Structure of the command header
5 Primitive data forms
5.1 Signed integer
5.1.1 Signed integer at 8-bit precision
5.1.2 Signed integer at 16-bit precision
5.1.3 Signed integer at 24-bit precision
5.1.4 Signed integer at 32-bit precision
5.2 Unsigned integer
5.2.1 Unsigned integers at 8-bit precision
5.2.2 Unsigned integers at 16-bit precision
5.2.3 Unsigned integers at 24-bit precision
5.2.4 Unsigned integers at 32-bit precision
5.3 Character
5.4 Fixed point real
5.4.1 Fixed point real at 32-bit precision
5.4.2 Fixed point real at 64-bit precision
5.4.3 Value of fixed point reals
5.5 Floating point
5.5.1 Floating point real at 32-bit precision
5.5.2 Floating point real at 64-bit precision
6 Representation of abstract parameter types
7 Representation of each element
7.1 Method of presentation
7.2 Delimiter elements
7.3 Metafile descriptor elements
7.4 Picture descriptor elements
7.5 Control elements
7.6 Graphical primitive elements
7.7 Attribute elements
7.8 Escape element
7.9 External elements
7.10 Segment control and segment attribute elements
8 Defaults
9 Conformance
10 Encoding rules, proforma and Model Profile
10.1 General principles
10.1.1 Encodings
10.1.2 Metafile defaults
10.2 Profile Proforma tables
A Formal grammar
B Examples
B.1 Example 1: BEGIN METAFILE 'Example 1'
B.2 Example 2: BEGIN PICTURE 'Test'
B.3 Example 3: POLYLINE from 0,2 to 1,3 to 2,1 to 0,2
B.4 Example 4: TEXT 'Hydrogen' at 0,1
B.5 Example 5: Partitioned POLYLINE with 50 points
B.6 Example 6: METAFILE DEFAULT REPLACEMENT linewidth
0.5
B.7 Example 7: Application Data No. 655 with 10K
octets (chars) of data
C List of binary encoding metafile element codes
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