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QuickTime Image File Format

This appendix describes QuickTime image files, which are intended to provide the most useful container for QuickTime-compressed still images.

Most still image file formats define both how images should be stored and compressed. However, the QuickTime image file format is a container format, which describes a storage mechanism independent of compression. The QuickTime image file format uses the same atom-based structure as a QuickTime movie.

Contents:

Atom Types in QuickTime Image Files
Recommended File Type and Suffix

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