B.3 Sun raster files

The Sun raster file format consists of a header followed by a series of unsigned 1-byte integers that represents the bit-pattern. Bits are scanline oriented, and each row must contain an even number of bytes. The predefined 1-bit patterns in GMT have dimensions of 64 by 64, but other sizes will be accepted when using the -Gp$\vert$P option. The Sun header structure is outline in Table B.3.

Table B.3: Structure of a Sun rasterfile.

Parameter	Description
int ras_magic	Magic number
int ras_width	Width (pixels) of image
int ras_height	Height (pixels) of image
int ras_depth	Depth (1, 8, 24, 32 bits) of pixel
int ras_length	Length (bytes) of image
int ras_type	Type of file; see RT_* below
int ras_maptype	Type of colormap; see RMT_* below
int ras_maplength	Length (bytes) of following map

After the header, the color map (if ras_maptype is not RMT_NONE) follows for ras_maplength bytes, followed by an image of ras_length bytes. Some related definitions are given in Table B.4.

Table B.4: Sun macro definitions relevant to rasterfiles.

Macro name	Description
RAS_MAGIC	0x59a66a95
RT_STANDARD	1 (Raw pixrect image in 68000 byte order)
RT_BYTE_ENCODED	2 (Run-length compression of bytes)
RT_FORMAT_RGB	3 ([X]RGB instead of [X]BGR)
RMT_NONE	0 (ras_maplength is expected to be 0)
RMT_EQUAL_RGB	1 (red[ras_maplength/3],green[],blue[])

Numerous public-domain programs exist, such as xv and convert (in the ImageMagick package), that will translate between various rasterfile formats such as tiff, gif, jpeg, and Sun raster. Raster patterns may be created with GMT plotting tools by generating PostScript plots that can be rasterized by ghostscript and translated into the right raster format.