IFF (Amiga Interchange) is a general-purpose data storage format (raster), developed by Electronic Arts, Inc. and Commodore-Amiga, Inc. that can associate and store multiple types of data. It is used by the ACD FotoCanvas Lite 2.0 and XnView applications.
IFF reads and writes RLE and non-compressed images. IFF CAT supports multipage files.
The default extension for this format is: IFF.
The file constants associated with this file format are:
WIC Codec CLSID |
WIC Codec Subformat |
RasterImageViewer.Save File Constant |
Read Support | Write Support | Description |
CLSID_WICLeadIffEncoder | WICLeadSubFormatIffIlbm | IffIlbm | 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 24 BPP | 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 24 BPP | Interchange File - RLE Compressed. |
CLSID_WICLeadIffEncoder | WICLeadSubFormatIffCat | IffCat | 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 24 BPP | 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 24 BPP | Interchange File - multiple images per file-RLE Compressed. |
CLSID_WICLeadIffEncoder | WICLeadSubFormatIffIlbmUncompressed | IffIlbmUncompressed | 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 24 BPP | 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 24 BPP | Interchange File - Uncompressed. |
CLSID_WICLeadIffEncoder | WICLeadSubFormatIffCatUncompressed | IffCatUncompressed | 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 24 BPP | 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 24 BPP | Interchange File - multiple images per file-Uncompressed. |
Required DLL: Leadtools.Codecs.Iff.Dll. For a listing of the exact DLLs needed, based on the toolkit version, refer to Files To Be Included With Your Application .
NOTE: This format does not support LEAD's redirected IO feature, therefore it cannot be used with the overloads of Load that take an inputstream parameter or FeedLoad.
Platforms: .NET 2/3, .NET 4