Piks Foundation: A C Programmer's Guide

A guide to the new OSI/ANSI computer imaging standard--PIKS (Programmer's Imaging Kernel System). The author is the editor of the PIKS standard and one of the leading authorities in the field of computer imaging. Topics covered here include: the PIKS theory of operation, PIKS C language interface, all the major PIKS mechanisms--allocation, inquiry, management, error handling.