Truevision TGA (Targa) Reader

FME Format Type Identifier

TARGA

Reader/Writer

Reader

Typical File Extensions

.tga

The TARGA (Truevision Advanced Raster Graphics Adapter) format was created by Truevision Inc. (now part of Avid Technology) as the native format of TARGA and VISTA graphics cards. TARGA files are used to render still images and to render sequences of still images to video.

TARGA Product and System Requirements

Format

Product

Operating System

Reader/Writer

FME Desktop License

FME Server

FME Cloud

Windows 64-bit

Linux

Mac

Reader

Available in FME Professional Edition and higher

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Reader Overview

FME considers a single TARGA file to be a dataset.

The TARGA file contains pixel data, and each pixel in the file is a point in a single FME raster feature.

The reader supports reading 1-band (Monochrome), 2-band (Monochrome with Alpha), 3-band (RGB), and 4-band (RGBA) TARGA images as per the TGA 2.0 standard.

FME Raster Features

FME raster features represent raster data and use several concepts that are unlike those used in the handling of vector data. The topics below describe how FME processes raster data.

About FME Rasters Tiling and Mosaicking
Raster Properties Band Combining and Separating
Band Properties Band and Palette Selection
Palette Properties Raster Processing
Compression Raster versus Vector Features
Pyramiding Raster File Naming
Interleaving World Files
Interpretation and Data Type TAB Files
Palette Resolution  

TARGA files can be written with non-square pixel dimensions. TARGA supports rasters with a Red8, a Green8, and a Blue8 band, or a single Grey8 band (and optional alpha). (FME also supports 16-bit versions, although they are not explicitly mentioned in the TGA 2.0 standard.)

TARGA also supports rasters with a single UInt8 or UInt16 band that has an RGB24 or RGBA32 palette.