Image
Import Options 

File
Import
Set Options
Use this form to perform various tasks while importing image
files of various file extensions. The
complete list of file extensions are included in the Notes section below.
Complete the form as desired.
Pick
OK to accept the current selections as the new defaults or Reset
to return all selections to their previous defaults.
Select from the following options for determining how imported images are handled by VX.
Detect corners - Detect corners in the imported image
Show edge pixels - Show the edge pixels of the imported image.
Two-tone - Change the imported image to two-tone (i.e., grey scale).
Thicken - This acts as a healer for the imported image by thickening each image pixel.
This sets the default directory for locating
files to import of the specified type. Pick the folder icon to select
a path from the Directory Browser. The path will
be added to the Default Directory Field. The Default directory
field only applies to the active session while
VX is running unless it is permanently saved using the Save Settings
button on the Import Form.
More about the Default Directory 
All import/export translators have their own default-directory on their options form. If the default-directory is set, then the Directory Browser will always come up in that directory. If the default-directory is not set, then the file browser will come up in the "last visited" directory.
The last visited directory is not unique. There is one last visited for all import translators and one for all export translators. By default, the value in the Default Directory field is set to '.' which means, use the "last visited" directory. The file icon allows you to browse for a directory which will then be the new default. You can set the Default Directory back to "." by selecting Reset on the form.
OK - Accept the current selections and make them the defaults.
Reset - Return all selections to the previous defaults.
Image
import file formats supported.
Tag - Description
AVS - AVS X image file
BMP - Microsoft Windows bitmap image file
BUMP - Microsoft Windows 24-bit bitmap image file
CMYK - Raw cyan, magenta, yellow, and black bytes
DCX - ZSoft IBM PC multi-page Paintbrush file
DIB - Microsoft Windows bitmap image file
EPS - Adobe Encapsulated PostScript file
EPS2 - Adobe Level II Encapsulated PostScript file
EPS - Adobe Encapsulated PostScript file
EPSI - Adobe Encapsulated PostScript Interchange format
FAX - Group 3
FIG - TransFig image format
FITS - Flexible Image Transport System
FPX - FlashPix Format
GIF - CompuServe graphics interchange format; 8-bit color
GIF87 - CompuServe graphics interchange format; 8-bit color (version
87a)
GRADATION - gradual passing from one shade to another
GRANITE - granite texture
GRAY - Raw gray bytes
HDF - Hierarchical Data Format
HISTOGRAM
HTML - Hypertext Markup Language with a client-side image map
JBIG - Joint Bi-level Image experts Group file interchange format
JPEG - Joint Photographic Experts Group JFIF format; compressed 24-bit
color
MAP - colormap intensities and indices.
MATTE - Raw matte bytes
MIFF - Magick image file format
MONO - Bi-level bitmap in least-significant-byte (LSB) first order
MPEG - Motion Picture Experts Group file interchange format
MTV - MTV Raytracing image format
NETSCAPE - Netscape 216 color cube
NULL - NULL image
PBM - Portable bitmap format (black and white)
PCD - Photo CD
PCX - ZSoft IBM PC Paintbrush file
PDF - Portable Document Format
PGM - Portable graymap format (gray scale)
PICT - Apple Macintosh QuickDraw/PICT file
PLASMA - plasma fractal image
PNG - Portable Network Graphics
PNM - Portable anymap
PPM - Portable pixmap format (color)
PREVIEW
PS - Adobe PostScript file
PS2 - Adobe Level II PostScript file
RAD - Radiance image file
RGB - Raw red, green, and blue bytes
RGBA - Raw red, green, blue, and matte bytes
RLA - Alias/Wavefront image file; read only
RLE - Utah Run length encoded image file; read only
SGI - Irix RGB image file
SUN - SUN Rasterfile
TEXT - raw text file; read only
TGA - Truevision Targa image file
TIFF - Tagged Image File Format
TIFF24 - 24-bit Tagged Image File Format
UYVY - 16bit/pixel interleaved YUV
TILE - tile image with a texture
UIL - X-Motif UIL table
VICAR - read only
VID - Visual Image Directory
VIFF - Khoros Visualization image file
X - select image from X server screen
XC - constant image of X server color
XBM - X Windows system bitmap, black and white only
XPM - X Windows system pixmap file (color)
XWD - X Windows system window dump file (color)
YUV - CCIR 601 4:1:1 file