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From: Lee Moore <moore@wrc.xerox.com>
Subject: Re: Wanted: Info on XEROX .IMG FILES
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> The IMG format is proprietary.  It is basically a Group 4 CCITT image in
> an Interpress wrapper.  It is highly compressed.

Actually, the IMG file format has been publicly documented for at 
least 10 years.  Among other places it is in a document called
the Xerox Raster Encoding Standard (Doc # 178506) (June, 1985).
This document also explains the "Adaptive" encoding format
used in DocuTech.

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Lee C. Moore -- Xerox Corp., Digital Imaging Technology Center
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