User Guide

Image Formats Supported by Raster Design
Generic multispec-
tral
FLIC (page 389)JFIF - JPEG (page
391)
GIF (page 390)
GIF (page 390)GeoSPOT (page
390)
PCX (page 394)JPEG 2000 (page
391)
IKONOS (8- or 16-
bit)
IG4 (page 391)TARGA (page 399)PNG (page 394)
NITF (page 393)Landsat FAST L7A
(page 392)
TIFF (page 399)
QuickBird TIFF
(page 394)
PICT (page 394)
SID (MrSID)
(page 396)
RLC (page 395)
RLC2 (page 395)
Image Portability
Whether you can open a Raster Design drawing in another Autodesk
application depends on the type of image included in the drawing:
AutoCAD image objects can be displayed in the standard version of other
Autodesk products such as AutoCAD 2008 and AutoCAD Map 3D. The format
of this image type can be
■ 1-bit bitonal
■ 4- or 8-bit grayscale
■ 8-bit index color
■ 24-bit true color
Raster Design image objects can be displayed in other Autodesk products that
include the Raster Design Object Enabler. The format of this image type can
be
■ single-band floating-point digital elevation model (DEM)
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