Top Document: Graphics File Formats FAQ (Part 3 of 4): Where to Get File Format Specifications Previous Document: IV-VRML - Inventor VRML Format Next Document: JCAMP See reader questions & answers on this topic! - Help others by sharing your knowledge Type: Compression Method Extension: Not specified by specification Version: Compression: JBIG Color Depth: 1-bit (see text) Maintainer: ISO, IEC and ITU Specification: JBIG is a lossless method for compressing black and white (1-bit) raster image data. Its primary benefit is as a method for transmitting bi-level image data across a communications channel. JBIG's progressive encoding scheme allows lower resolution version of the image to be sent first, followed by higher resolution images which build on the previously transmitted data (e.g. 75, 150, 300, 450, and 600 DPI). This capability makes JBIG ideal for replacing less-efficient document imaging transmissions methods, such as CCITT Group 3 & 4, but thus far JBIG has not been marketed in such a way as to make this possible. There is no official JBIG file format. You just dump a JBIG data stream into a disk for tape file, give it the extension JBG or JBIG, and you have a JBIG file. JBIG is jointly sponsored by the ITU (CCITT) and ISO/IEC JTCI/SC29 committees. The JBIG standard may be found in the following documents: Information technology -- Coded representation of picture and audio information -- Progressive bi-level image compression, ISO/IEC 11544:1993 ITU/CCITT Recommendation T.82 User Contributions:Top Document: Graphics File Formats FAQ (Part 3 of 4): Where to Get File Format Specifications Previous Document: IV-VRML - Inventor VRML Format Next Document: JCAMP 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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