On Saturday, 18 Dec 1999, Christopher A. Gaul wrote: > Is anyone currently working on supporting the Flashpix file format? > It's a pretty common format on Digital camera's and is (AFAIK) based on > JPEG but with some additional header information (for image capture > date, dpi, etc.) I have the FlashPix conformance test suite CD (free from the relevant web-site), but when I took a look at the file format, I decided that this was the most hideous thing I ever saw. It's gratuitously complicated for just storing some pictures. If I remember correctly, there's a miniature FAT filesystem you need to unpick, containing one (or more) RIFF/OLE-style structured files with several forks, containing metadata and actual image data (possibly at multiple resolutions or viewpoints). Some of the metadata specifies colour and co-ord space transforms which _must_ be applied before showing the image. Others are merely there to annoy. If I get a lot of spare time, I might write a FlashPix loader. But apparently the format is being retired in favour of something else (can't remember what). If someone wanted to pay me to write it, I might be up for it. Otherwise, don't hold your breath. Austin
