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You could use the PPM format. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netpbm_format

KirarinSnow 2010-07-27 01:18:47

That looks exactly like what I was looking for, thank you. Do you know of any way to make ppm into a viewable image file? I would like the program to create the ppm file, but have the user be able to open it in a image viewer program, to see the actual picture.

Anthony 2010-07-27 02:12:29

PPM can be viewed in a lot of applications. You can also use a program like `convert` (http://www.imagemagick.org/) to turn it into other formats like PNG, etc., which take up less space.

KirarinSnow 2010-07-27 11:25:02

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Aspect 1: you have to know the format of the image file. Then you write that format. Likely any standard image files (PPM, BPM, TIFF,...) will include some sort of header. This is inherent in writing a standard image file, independent of the language.

Aspect 2: Fortran 2 used to be relentlessly record oriented, even for unformated (binary) files, which didn't "play" nicely with files written by other languages such as C, or file formats specified without the record deliminators expected by Fortran. But the new Stream I/O method produces non-record files. An image file will be unformatted (binary), so in the open statement include:

access='stream', form='unformatted', ....

M. S. B. 2010-07-27 02:37:53

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