From: "Alex Barsamian" <bigalex AT worldnet DOT att DOT net>
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Subject: Re: Header of PCX files
Date: Sun, 7 Dec 1997 18:25:30 -0700
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>I'm looking for the exact description of the header of PCX image files.
>I know it is 128 bytes long, I know the title of the differents parts
>which are containing in the header.
>But which values should I put in them ???

Here is what the PCX 5.0 spec looks like:

typedef struct pcx_header {
    char manufacturer;  // the manufacturer: this is useless
    char version;            // file format version
    char encoding;        // type of compression, RLE or none
    char bits_per_pixel;
    int x,y;                       // starting location of image in x/y
space
    int width,height;       // size of image, units in pixels
    int horz_res, vert_res;    // dots per inch, for printing
    char ega_pallete[48]    // the old 16 color pallete
    char reserved;            // ?
    char num_color_planes;    // don't care if using 256 color PCXs
    int bytes_per_line;
    int pallete_typ;        // 1 for color, 2 for greyscale
    char padding[58];    // seems fairly obvious...
}

The pallete is found 768 characters before EOF.

The only values of interest within the header are bits_per_pixel, x, y,
width, height, and bytes_per_line.  The rest you can effectively skip unless
you plan on working with images with a color depth > 8 bits/pixel.

Alex