Computer Graphics Metafile

The CGM format is used in many industries as a standard format for device-independent two-dimensional graphics data. It is a vector-based graphics format. It typically contains information about polygons, lines, and text with properties such as color and size.

Versions

  • Version 1: (1987 )
  • Version 2: (1990 )
  • Version 3: (1992 )
  • Version 4: (1995 )

The recent enlargements receive CGM files a growing importance in web environments. There, the WebCGM format, for example, used to represent graphics in interactive electronic catalogs and manuals.

Text (literary theory) American National Standards Institute Compendium
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