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Format

Truevision TGA Bitmap

Summary

Name
Truevision TGA Bitmap
Version
2.0
Identifiers
PUID: fmt/402
Format type
Image (Raster)
Description
The Truevision TGA File Format comprises 5 areas, each of which contains one or more fields of fixed or variable length. The 5 file areas are: (1) TGA File Header, (2) Image/Color Map Data, (3) Developer Area, (4) Extension Area and (5) TGA File Footer. The last 3 areas, the Developer Area, the Extension Area and the TGA File Footer are new to the file specification as of September, 1989. For this reason, images created with software written before September, 1989 will probably not contain these three fields.
Note
http://www.dca.fee.unicamp.br/~martino/disciplinas/ea978/tgaffs.pdf; https://www.loc.gov/preservation/digital/formats/fdd/fdd000179.shtml
File extensions
tga, icb, vda, vst
Source
The National Archives and Records Administration / The National Archives and Records Administration

Relationships

Has priority over

Internal signatures

Truevision TGA Bitmap 2

Note
TRUEVISION-XFILE.<null> last 18 bytes of the file

Byte sequences

Min Frag Length
Absolute from EOF
Offset
0
Max offset
None
Byte Sequence
54525545564953494F4E2D5846494C452E00
Endianness
None

Changelog

  • Updated in V65

    Release date
    25 October 2012

    StarOffice Draw 5.2: MIME-Type information added.

  • Updated in V62

    Release date
    28 August 2012

    Truevision TGA: Description information submitted by the National Archives and Records Administration.

  • Added in V58

    Release date
    21 March 2012

    Truevision TGA Bitmap 2: Signature submitted by Georgia Tech Research Institute, USA.

    Truevision TGA Bitmap 2: Submission from Georgia Tech Research Institute, USA. Outline entry added.