Programmer's are code-hungry people. They just want the secrets and they want
them to work NOW! But always in the back of a hack's mind there are the
questions: "Is this really the best way to do this? Could it be better?".

This FAQ is to share ideas on the implementation details of reading, writing,
converting, and displaying graphics file formats. You'll probably get some
good ideas here, find a few things you didn't know about, and even have a few
suggestions and improvements of you own to add (send them to jdm@ora.com).

If you need to know the best way to do something with file formats, or
just find it embarrassing to implement a chunk of some other programmer's
code and then have to admit you really don't understand how it works, then
this FAQ is for you.