On 24 May 02 15:55:55 GMT, ya.huang@PFIZER.COM (Huang, Ya) wrote:

>Sam, > >I seriously doubt the feasibility to convert any bitmap >image files to CGM file format. From CGM to bitmap image format, like >BMP,GIF,JPEG etc. are relatively easy, and you can probably >find some shareware from Internet. The reason is that >CGM format is basically not an image format, it is a graphic, >a graphic format tells you how to draw a graph, it bares the >information such as x,y coordinates etc., eventually those x,y >coordinates need to be translated by some application to pixels (bitmap) >to render the screen. > >Now for your question, do you want to put the image in which screen? >SAS graph window? How about (for V8) the browser window? >If the browser is acceptable to you, you may try ODS which >is definitely capable of bring in bitmap image. Other option would be >SAS AF, which also can incorporate bitmap image in AF frame. > >Or if you really just want to bring in a bitmap image file and >'draw' it on SAS graph window, lets say a GIF file, >you might need to decode the GIF file and get all those x,y coordinates, >and convert them into an annotation data set, then use proc gslide. >You can find specification of GIF format, you can also find papers >for jpeg decoding algorithm: > >http://www.rasip.fer.hr/research/compress/algorithms/adv/jpeg/ > >http://www.w3.org/Graphics/GIF/spec-gif89a.txt

Thanks, I will check it out.

Yes I want to be able to import images (graphics really) and replay them in Greplay with a combination of Gslide and SAS Graph output. I then want to sent this to print using the PS300 postscript output driver.

Is there a CGM drawing program (Windows) which is compatible with SAS Gimport ?

Sam