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+/*
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+% %
+% %
+% %
+% V V IIIII CCCC AAA RRRR %
+% V V I C A A R R %
+% V V I C AAAAA RRRR %
+% V V I C A A R R %
+% V IIIII CCCC A A R R %
+% %
+% %
+% Read/Write VICAR Rasterfile Format %
+% %
+% Software Design %
+% John Cristy %
+% July 1992 %
+% %
+% %
+% Copyright 1999-2009 ImageMagick Studio LLC, a non-profit organization %
+% dedicated to making software imaging solutions freely available. %
+% %
+% You may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may %
+% obtain a copy of the License at %
+% %
+% http://www.imagemagick.org/script/license.php %
+% %
+% Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software %
+% distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, %
+% WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. %
+% See the License for the specific language governing permissions and %
+% limitations under the License. %
+% %
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+%
+%
+*/
+
+/*
+ Include declarations.
+*/
+#include "magick/studio.h"
+#include "magick/blob.h"
+#include "magick/blob-private.h"
+#include "magick/cache.h"
+#include "magick/colorspace.h"
+#include "magick/constitute.h"
+#include "magick/exception.h"
+#include "magick/exception-private.h"
+#include "magick/image.h"
+#include "magick/image-private.h"
+#include "magick/list.h"
+#include "magick/magick.h"
+#include "magick/memory_.h"
+#include "magick/monitor.h"
+#include "magick/monitor-private.h"
+#include "magick/quantum-private.h"
+#include "magick/quantum-private.h"
+#include "magick/static.h"
+#include "magick/string_.h"
+#include "magick/module.h"
+
+/*
+ Forward declarations.
+*/
+static MagickBooleanType
+ WriteVICARImage(const ImageInfo *,Image *);
+
+/*
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+% %
+% %
+% %
+% I s V I C A R %
+% %
+% %
+% %
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+%
+% IsVICAR() returns MagickTrue if the image format type, identified by the
+% magick string, is VICAR.
+%
+% The format of the IsVICAR method is:
+%
+% MagickBooleanType IsVICAR(const unsigned char *magick,
+% const size_t length)
+%
+% A description of each parameter follows:
+%
+% o magick: compare image format pattern against these bytes.
+%
+% o length: Specifies the length of the magick string.
+%
+*/
+static MagickBooleanType IsVICAR(const unsigned char *magick,
+ const size_t length)
+{
+ if (length < 14)
+ return(MagickFalse);
+ if (LocaleNCompare((const char *) magick,"LBLSIZE",7) == 0)
+ return(MagickTrue);
+ if (LocaleNCompare((const char *) magick,"NJPL1I",6) == 0)
+ return(MagickTrue);
+ if (LocaleNCompare((const char *) magick,"PDS_VERSION_ID",14) == 0)
+ return(MagickTrue);
+ return(MagickFalse);
+}
+
+/*
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+% %
+% %
+% %
+% R e a d V I C A R I m a g e %
+% %
+% %
+% %
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+%
+% ReadVICARImage() reads a VICAR image file and returns it. It
+% allocates the memory necessary for the new Image structure and returns a
+% pointer to the new image.
+%
+% The format of the ReadVICARImage method is:
+%
+% Image *ReadVICARImage(const ImageInfo *image_info,
+% ExceptionInfo *exception)
+%
+% A description of each parameter follows:
+%
+% o image: Method ReadVICARImage returns a pointer to the image after
+% reading. A null image is returned if there is a memory shortage or if
+% the image cannot be read.
+%
+% o image_info: the image info.
+%
+% o exception: return any errors or warnings in this structure.
+%
+%
+*/
+static Image *ReadVICARImage(const ImageInfo *image_info,
+ ExceptionInfo *exception)
+{
+ char
+ keyword[MaxTextExtent],
+ value[MaxTextExtent];
+
+ Image
+ *image;
+
+ int
+ c;
+
+ long
+ y;
+
+ MagickBooleanType
+ status,
+ value_expected;
+
+ QuantumInfo
+ *quantum_info;
+
+ QuantumType
+ quantum_type;
+
+ register PixelPacket
+ *q;
+
+ ssize_t
+ count;
+
+ size_t
+ length;
+
+ unsigned char
+ *pixels;
+
+ /*
+ Open image file.
+ */
+ assert(image_info != (const ImageInfo *) NULL);
+ assert(image_info->signature == MagickSignature);
+ if (image_info->debug != MagickFalse)
+ (void) LogMagickEvent(TraceEvent,GetMagickModule(),"%s",
+ image_info->filename);
+ assert(exception != (ExceptionInfo *) NULL);
+ assert(exception->signature == MagickSignature);
+ image=AcquireImage(image_info);
+ status=OpenBlob(image_info,image,ReadBinaryBlobMode,exception);
+ if (status == MagickFalse)
+ {
+ image=DestroyImageList(image);
+ return((Image *) NULL);
+ }
+ /*
+ Decode image header.
+ */
+ c=ReadBlobByte(image);
+ count=1;
+ if (c == EOF)
+ {
+ image=DestroyImage(image);
+ return((Image *) NULL);
+ }
+ length=0;
+ image->columns=0;
+ image->rows=0;
+ while (isgraph(c) && ((image->columns == 0) || (image->rows == 0)))
+ {
+ if (isalnum(c) == MagickFalse)
+ {
+ c=ReadBlobByte(image);
+ count++;
+ }
+ else
+ {
+ register char
+ *p;
+
+ /*
+ Determine a keyword and its value.
+ */
+ p=keyword;
+ do
+ {
+ if ((size_t) (p-keyword) < (MaxTextExtent-1))
+ *p++=c;
+ c=ReadBlobByte(image);
+ count++;
+ } while (isalnum(c) || (c == '_'));
+ *p='\0';
+ value_expected=MagickFalse;
+ while ((isspace((int) ((unsigned char) c)) != 0) || (c == '='))
+ {
+ if (c == '=')
+ value_expected=MagickTrue;
+ c=ReadBlobByte(image);
+ count++;
+ }
+ if (value_expected == MagickFalse)
+ continue;
+ p=value;
+ while (isalnum(c))
+ {
+ if ((size_t) (p-value) < (MaxTextExtent-1))
+ *p++=c;
+ c=ReadBlobByte(image);
+ count++;
+ }
+ *p='\0';
+ /*
+ Assign a value to the specified keyword.
+ */
+ if (LocaleCompare(keyword,"Label_RECORDS") == 0)
+ length=(ssize_t) atol(value);
+ if (LocaleCompare(keyword,"LBLSIZE") == 0)
+ length=(ssize_t) atol(value);
+ if (LocaleCompare(keyword,"RECORD_BYTES") == 0)
+ image->columns=1UL*atol(value);
+ if (LocaleCompare(keyword,"NS") == 0)
+ image->columns=1UL*atol(value);
+ if (LocaleCompare(keyword,"LINES") == 0)
+ image->rows=1UL*atol(value);
+ if (LocaleCompare(keyword,"NL") == 0)
+ image->rows=1UL*atol(value);
+ }
+ while (isspace((int) ((unsigned char) c)) != 0)
+ {
+ c=ReadBlobByte(image);
+ count++;
+ }
+ }
+ while (count < (ssize_t) length)
+ {
+ c=ReadBlobByte(image);
+ count++;
+ }
+ if ((image->columns == 0) || (image->rows == 0))
+ ThrowReaderException(CorruptImageError,"NegativeOrZeroImageSize");
+ image->depth=8;
+ if (AcquireImageColormap(image,256) == MagickFalse)
+ ThrowReaderException(ResourceLimitError,"MemoryAllocationFailed");
+ if (image_info->ping != MagickFalse)
+ {
+ (void) CloseBlob(image);
+ return(GetFirstImageInList(image));
+ }
+ /*
+ Read VICAR pixels.
+ */
+ quantum_type=IndexQuantum;
+ quantum_info=AcquireQuantumInfo(image_info,image);
+ if (quantum_info == (QuantumInfo *) NULL)
+ ThrowReaderException(ResourceLimitError,"MemoryAllocationFailed");
+ pixels=GetQuantumPixels(quantum_info);
+ length=GetQuantumExtent(image,quantum_info,IndexQuantum);
+ for (y=0; y < (long) image->rows; y++)
+ {
+ q=QueueAuthenticPixels(image,0,y,image->columns,1,exception);
+ if (q == (PixelPacket *) NULL)
+ break;
+ count=ReadBlob(image,length,pixels);
+ (void) ImportQuantumPixels(image,(CacheView *) NULL,quantum_info,
+ quantum_type,pixels,exception);
+ if (SyncAuthenticPixels(image,exception) == MagickFalse)
+ break;
+ status=SetImageProgress(image,LoadImageTag,y,image->rows);
+ if (status == MagickFalse)
+ break;
+ }
+ SetQuantumImageType(image,quantum_type);
+ quantum_info=DestroyQuantumInfo(quantum_info);
+ if (EOFBlob(image) != MagickFalse)
+ ThrowFileException(exception,CorruptImageError,"UnexpectedEndOfFile",
+ image->filename);
+ (void) CloseBlob(image);
+ return(GetFirstImageInList(image));
+}
+
+/*
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+% %
+% %
+% %
+% R e g i s t e r V I C A R I m a g e %
+% %
+% %
+% %
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+%
+% RegisterVICARImage() adds attributes for the VICAR image format to
+% the list of supported formats. The attributes include the image format
+% tag, a method to read and/or write the format, whether the format
+% supports the saving of more than one frame to the same file or blob,
+% whether the format supports native in-memory I/O, and a brief
+% description of the format.
+%
+% The format of the RegisterVICARImage method is:
+%
+% unsigned long RegisterVICARImage(void)
+%
+*/
+ModuleExport unsigned long RegisterVICARImage(void)
+{
+ MagickInfo
+ *entry;
+
+ entry=SetMagickInfo("VICAR");
+ entry->decoder=(DecodeImageHandler *) ReadVICARImage;
+ entry->encoder=(EncodeImageHandler *) WriteVICARImage;
+ entry->magick=(IsImageFormatHandler *) IsVICAR;
+ entry->adjoin=MagickFalse;
+ entry->description=ConstantString("VICAR rasterfile format");
+ entry->module=ConstantString("VICAR");
+ (void) RegisterMagickInfo(entry);
+ return(MagickImageCoderSignature);
+}
+
+/*
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+% %
+% %
+% %
+% U n r e g i s t e r V I C A R I m a g e %
+% %
+% %
+% %
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+%
+% UnregisterVICARImage() removes format registrations made by the
+% VICAR module from the list of supported formats.
+%
+% The format of the UnregisterVICARImage method is:
+%
+% UnregisterVICARImage(void)
+%
+*/
+ModuleExport void UnregisterVICARImage(void)
+{
+ (void) UnregisterMagickInfo("VICAR");
+}
+
+/*
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+% %
+% %
+% %
+% W r i t e V I C A R I m a g e %
+% %
+% %
+% %
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+%
+% WriteVICARImage() writes an image in the VICAR rasterfile format.
+% Vicar files contain a text header, followed by one or more planes of binary
+% grayscale image data. Vicar files are designed to allow many planes to be
+% stacked together to form image cubes. This method only writes a single
+% grayscale plane.
+%
+% WriteVICARImage was written contributed by
+% gorelick@esther.la.asu.edu.
+%
+% The format of the WriteVICARImage method is:
+%
+% MagickBooleanType WriteVICARImage(const ImageInfo *image_info,
+% Image *image)
+%
+% A description of each parameter follows.
+%
+% o image_info: the image info.
+%
+% o image: The image.
+%
+*/
+static MagickBooleanType WriteVICARImage(const ImageInfo *image_info,
+ Image *image)
+{
+ char
+ header[MaxTextExtent];
+
+ int
+ y;
+
+ MagickBooleanType
+ status;
+
+ QuantumInfo
+ *quantum_info;
+
+ register const PixelPacket
+ *p;
+
+ ssize_t
+ count;
+
+ size_t
+ length;
+
+ unsigned char
+ *pixels;
+
+ /*
+ Open output image file.
+ */
+ assert(image_info != (const ImageInfo *) NULL);
+ assert(image_info->signature == MagickSignature);
+ assert(image != (Image *) NULL);
+ assert(image->signature == MagickSignature);
+ if (image->debug != MagickFalse)
+ (void) LogMagickEvent(TraceEvent,GetMagickModule(),"%s",image->filename);
+ status=OpenBlob(image_info,image,WriteBinaryBlobMode,&image->exception);
+ if (status == MagickFalse)
+ return(status);
+ if (image->colorspace != RGBColorspace)
+ (void) TransformImageColorspace(image,RGBColorspace);
+ /*
+ Write header.
+ */
+ (void) ResetMagickMemory(header,' ',MaxTextExtent);
+ (void) FormatMagickString(header,MaxTextExtent,
+ "LBLSIZE=%lu FORMAT='BYTE' TYPE='IMAGE' BUFSIZE=20000 DIM=2 EOL=0 "
+ "RECSIZE=%lu ORG='BSQ' NL=%lu NS=%lu NB=1 N1=0 N2=0 N3=0 N4=0 NBB=0 "
+ "NLB=0 TASK='ImageMagick'",(unsigned long) MaxTextExtent,image->columns,
+ image->rows,image->columns);
+ (void) WriteBlob(image,MaxTextExtent,(unsigned char *) header);
+ /*
+ Write VICAR pixels.
+ */
+ image->depth=8;
+ quantum_info=AcquireQuantumInfo(image_info,image);
+ if (quantum_info == (QuantumInfo *) NULL)
+ ThrowWriterException(ResourceLimitError,"MemoryAllocationFailed");
+ pixels=GetQuantumPixels(quantum_info);
+ for (y=0; y < (long) image->rows; y++)
+ {
+ p=GetVirtualPixels(image,0,y,image->columns,1,&image->exception);
+ if (p == (const PixelPacket *) NULL)
+ break;
+ length=ExportQuantumPixels(image,(const CacheView *) NULL,quantum_info,
+ GrayQuantum,pixels,&image->exception);
+ count=WriteBlob(image,length,pixels);
+ if (count != (ssize_t) length)
+ break;
+ status=SetImageProgress(image,SaveImageTag,y,image->rows);
+ if (status == MagickFalse)
+ break;
+ }
+ quantum_info=DestroyQuantumInfo(quantum_info);
+ (void) CloseBlob(image);
+ return(MagickTrue);
+}